Sentences with phrase «neofeudal fiefdoms»

In one concept, 72andSunny pitched having Tom Cruise reprise his character from the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder as a brash, cursing movie studio executive, and equip him with a PlayBook to run his corporate fiefdom.

It unsettles IT guys, who fear the bogeyman of legacy integration (and may wonder what happens to their fiefdoms after the integration is complete).

Gerdes, who is more than a mere perambulatory Rolodex, has the inside dish on the strategic focus of the various and diffuse fiefdoms within the Microsoft realm and in fact probably knows more about Microsoft's strategic direction than many Microsoft employees.

Occupation: CEO and founder of Chris Madden Inc., a growing domestic - diva fiefdom that's filling the vacuum left by Martha Stewart.

So both are paradoxically true: rising inequality is indeed a crisis of Neoliberal Global State Capitalism, and so is the rise of the supposed «solution,» the insatiable plundering State in service to its fiefdoms and private Financial Power Elites (the Plutocracy).

But the rise of the Central State beholden to its fiefdoms (public unions, shadow Security State, military industrial complex, the sickcare cartels, etc.) has enabled the wholesale distortion not just of domestic markets but of the entire global economy.

There are no fiefdoms.»

Management by mandarin To run his fiefdom and its business holdings, Lee relies heavily on an elite cadre of about fifty senior civil servants.

Unlike the activist firms run by Bill Ackman or Dan Loeb, the fund Paul Singer founded has raised an army of activists who can influence corporate fiefdoms everywhere.

and the once - shocking Family Guy expand his fiefdom to the big screen, thanks to the success of his first live - action feature, Ted.

Android is supposed to be the egalitarian alternative to the iOS fiefdom.

Not bothering to tell Wikipedia fits as well; Google treats the web as its fiefdom, and for good reason.

But privatizers add on interest and financial fees, high executive salaries and bonuses, and turn the roads into toll roads and other infrastructure into neofeudal fiefdoms to charge monopolistic access fees for people to use.

Changes to the corporate structure mean that Quixey is now working with different people (Alibaba's Joe Tsai, for example, is no longer directly involved), and quarterly road - maps are soon supplemented by weekly deliverables (sometimes sent directly to Quixey engineers from Alibaba engineers, as the latter company's various fiefdoms become more pronounced).

If the future pan-Orthodox Council is to have historical significance, its leaders will have to transcend their personal resentments, stop looking after the self - interest of their respective ecclesial fiefdoms, and go beyond the haphazard list of items drawn up decades ago.

I did not get to play in the inner circle of a fiefdom that fed toxicity.

The patriarchal, macho, controlling, manipulative, shaming, money - grubbing, name - it - and - claim - it, fear - mongering, other - despising, fiefdom - making, using and abusing, excuse for narcissistic and plain old selfish and power - addled appalling behavior that is commonly called «church» and «church leadership» has nothing whatsoever to do with anything the person or character or compilation or concept called «Jesus» ever reportedly or theoretically said, did, or conveyed.

This is the terrifying Spirit of Vatican I that really sees the Church as the Pope's personal fiefdom and him as its master rather than its servant.»

Whether we point to «secularization» or «modernization» or merely mobility and rising levels of education, the cultural and social base on which the once - dominant denominations built their fiefdoms has all but disappeared — the lingering reality of racial division being the glaring exception.

Also, you clealy want America to be a fiefdom, ergo you must want America to be some kind of monarchy.

Europe in the 1100's was awash in hundreds of separate fiefdoms, each with it's own interests and needs.

The constant refrain of the RSS school is that Christians are abusing «our hospitality» as though India was the fiefdom of the RSS.»

Although the international community looks upon these artificial fiefdoms as internal colonies, the regime had high hopes for this plan until foreign pressure at least momentarily suspended the policy of denying blacks citizenship in their own country.

There are, no doubt, other interests at stake, such as those linked to the oil fiefdoms of central Asia!

But what complicates this equation is the fact that California's 10 sections operate as independent fiefdoms, each with its own rules and regulations, and each with its arcane calculations to determine who goes in postseason.

will it take another season of Giroud leading the line and failing miserably yet again for people to understand that Wenger now runs the club as his own private fiefdom??

But as Arsenal is his fiefdom, he can still smirk at the cameras ansd say things like, «we are a bit short, but we do nt need anyone at the moment»

I realise that Chechnya, as Kadyrov's private fiefdom, is far worse than the rest of Russia but even with that in mind Russia's backslide into autocratic thuggery under Putin should be condemned for what it is.

What's funny is that Wenger has been taking the piss out of Arsenal FC for years, using it as his own personal ego fiefdom.

The park district has been viewed for so long as Kelly «s patronage fiefdom — with an estimated 1,000 Democratic precinct captains on its payroll

The sense of betrayal that residents feel has its roots in a park district that has operated as a fiefdom for a select few without public scrutiny or input.

«They may have changed their official party line to save their political fiefdoms, but Paladino is as much of a train wreck as ever.

He argues vehemently that if there was any usefulness to the election, it was that it provided an insight into how democratic process could be subverted by an organized electoral pirates who worked to enthrone a regime of anomie in pursuit of a Hobbesian fiefdom that Ekiti has become.

Misratans should run their town's affairs through their new democratically - elected local council and Benghazi transparency activists must be involved in their local governance — but only as representatives of the central government and not as their own fiefdoms.

All I'll say is that Englishness isn't anyone's personal fiefdom, nor anyone in particular's gift to bestow.

I am sorry, but I will not be shedding any tears for the evangelical, aggressive and routinely failing welfare reforms that were the personal fiefdom of the Secretary of State for DWP.

«We understand some people want to protect their fiefdoms at all costs, but the Governor's plan is to get municipalities to talk to each other and actually lower costs for property taxpayers,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

The coming elections in 2016 and 2017 present the very real danger of irrelevance and ultimately extinction for the party, especially if the SNP can gain local government fiefdoms like Glasgow, which act as centres for political patronage.

Scotland used to be a Labour fiefdom; now the party is fighting for its life.

Labour fiefdoms are not the party's concern, but the places where they have MPs are.

There would be fewer one party fiefdoms.

By 2008, however, with Blair finally gone, he was back in the Cabinet Office, using his emotional intelligence to dig out information for Brown on the thinking inside the Labour's warring fiefdoms.

In 1949 the Upper East Side was essentially a Republican fiefdom — and had been for decades.

The Reverend has his little political fiefdom in the Bronx, but its small, limited, and the fact his endorsed candidate Cabrera lost significantly to Sen. Rivera shows that in the end, Diaz Sr. has nowhere the pull of his son, who is backing Cuomo big time.

Making people work together when they have built up individual fiefdoms for decades will also be tricky.

Senator Diaz might be a significant factor with regards to who ends up controlling the Senate, but in terms of electoral pull outside his church and fiefdom, the man has almost no influence.

If there is one man who can make Klein sweat in the Bronx, where he's erected a fiefdom and cultivated allies, it's Heastie, who leads a conference getting weary of watching priorities like ethics reform and the DREAM Act die in the senate.

Speaking in Sheffield Hallam, Mr Clegg said the Lib Dems had already taken on and defeated Labour's «one party fiefdoms in the north and the Tories in the southern shires and boroughs that they seem to think they were born to rule.»

Exile: the vested interests intent on protecting their local fiefdoms lobbied vary hard against the government consolidation bill, with lots of disinformation.

«I don't want to see the Town of Southold divided into fighting fiefdoms,» he said.