Sentence examples for as a fief from inspiring English sources

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

Without their own state as a fief, the Gandhis look unrooted.

In addition he surrendered his kingdom to the pope, receiving it back as a fief from the pope.

Therefore, I do not think it can be said that I control the state as a fief.

After 1802 it passed to the dukes of Arenberg, who held it as a fief of Prussia after 1815.

In the north the frontier with Malwa was maintained more or less as it was, although Bahmanī agreed to return Kherla's status as a fief of Malwa.

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

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

Surely Mr. Friedman knows that Lee Kwan Yew, the former prime minister, and his family run the city-state as a personal fief.

Joseph Margiotta, who died last month, ruled the Nassau County Republican Party in the 1960s and '70s as a personal fief.

Adolf seized Meissen as a vacant fief and purchased the right of succession in Thuringia from the landgrave Albert.