Sentences with phrase «political fiefdom»

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.

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

«I understand you're all political fiefdoms and little patronage mills.

And that's just as many new political fiefdoms for the Chicago Teachers Union to attempt to control with its robust war chest.

Managements are nearly entirely devoted to squabbling over spending money, political fiefdoms, getting the most power or resources, maximizing their options which typically reduce return on capital, buying back stock at high levels (when rationally they should be doing a dilution arbitrage, so that investors who bought at rational levels would receive a positive return of cash provided by those who irrationally buy into bubbles), not buying back stock at low levels (when rationally they should be buying, to arbitrage the other direction), etc..

Not exact matches

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.