Sentences with phrase «warring fiefdoms»

«His biggest contribution was taking the plasma activities at MIT from a group of warring fiefdoms to a unified and productive laboratory,» said Ronald Parker, a professor of nuclear engineering and electrical engineering and computer science emeritus who succeeded Davidson as the director in 1988.

But as the city degenerated into a series of warring fiefdoms in the 1980s, its power and water supplies became increasingly unreliable.

The influential publication credited Zimpher with unifying the system that had often acted «like a big group of warring fiefdoms competing for money and students.»

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.

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