Sentence examples for a fief for from inspiring English sources

That still raises the fear that any such area might become merely a fief for Mr Prabhakaran and his henchmen.

At Nitex, the big state textile company in Nis, some 1,000 striking workers gathered at company gates last Monday to demand the resignation of the general director, Mile Novakovic, a Communist who turned Socialist and ran the company, the workers say, as a fief for 30 years.

Fast forward to the 17th century, by which time Büsingen has been an Austrian fief for a few centuries, despite a standing Swiss claim on it.

However, the pope condemned him for having accepted his kingdom "as a fief from the king of the Germans" and claimed suzerainty over Hungary.

In 1795 Courland, a fief of Lithuania, likewise came under Russian rule with a similar status.

When Charlemagne destroyed the Avar empire about 796, he rewarded the Moravians for their help by giving them a part of it, which they held as a fief from him.

About 40 minutes outside Melbourne sits the bluestone hulk of Pentridge Prison, which Mr. Read ruled like a personal fief for almost 20 years.

Jens Böhrnsen, boss of the Bremen SPD, has not yet ended his 12-year tie to the CDU, but he is likely to.Bremen has been an SPD fief for 60 years.

For years he ran the company like a fief, packing the board with family and friends.

For his exploits, he was rewarded with Euboea as a fief and rose to the rank of megas konostaulos and megas doux, the first foreigner to do so.

For 35 years, between 1976 and 2011, it was treated as a fief by two long-serving directors-general, Edouard Saouma and Jacques Diouf and became a byword for drift and politicised inefficiency.