Sentence examples for a fief over from inspiring English sources

These helmets and crests are considered to be as important as the shield, each denoting a fief over which the bearer holds a right.

But his critics say he is a petty tyrant who has treated the tracks like a fief, running roughshod over contracting procedures and, in one case, giving a million-dollar contract to a company linked to organized crime.

Then Mr. Byrd and his sizable staff ruled over a fief that was the envy of territory-hungry lawmakers everywhere, before he stepped down from the committee post in 2008.

One of the last remaining symbols of India's feudal past, Ms. Devi and her husband, the Maharajah of Jaipur, ruled over a fief of some two million peasants in India's northwestern desert country before the nation won its independence from Britain in 1947.

The extent to which surrender of property to a lord as a fief limited control and rights over the property has been investigated, as has the importance of such acts in creating ties between family groups that could be repeatedly renewed.

After driving the Danes from York, the English king Edmund turned Cumbria over to Malcolm, apparently as a fief or seal of alliance.

And even if, as I am writing this, we don't have the definitive figures yet, the tendency is clear : The Muslim Brotherhood has been beaten in Tripoli; in Benghazi, long considered won over to their program; beaten in Derna, that passed as a fief of jihadism.

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

Why did he run the country like a fief?

Brand cannot allow big-time college football to continue functioning as a fief.

Critics like to point to the university as well -- but as evidence of a fief.