Sentence examples for feudal structure from inspiring English sources

In Assyria the feudal structure of society remained largely unchanged.

"It is a feudal structure," Hatoyama said of the privileges accorded Russia's élite in the traffic system.

Jien believed that changes in the feudal structure were necessary and defended the shogun's assumption of power.

With the collapse of the feudal structure, farmers in general gradually ceased to be subjects of a master and became subjects of a state.

The Uesugi continued to rule that territory until the Meiji Restoration (1868), when the Tokugawa house was overthrown and the feudal structure of Japan abolished.

The nobles wanted to perpetuate this process and to introduce the same feudal structure that they had seen and used in their annexations in the Baltic area.

In Germany, like in Japan, feudal structures lasted long.

The population therefore rapidly expanded, a factor that eventually led to the breakup of the old feudal structures.

Theories like these may go some of the way to explaining why growth took off fastest in north-west Europe where the destruction of feudal structures that prevented social mobility occurred first.How far institutions were involved in these complex processes is a moot point.

"Instead of having to convince voters one by one, parties form close links with tribal chieftains and win their tribes' votes in blocks, which comes cheaper and easier," Mr. Ilyas wrote in his study, adding that this system in turn strengthened the tribes and thus perpetuated the region's feudal structures.

"We find it intolerable that these blood feuds, and the feudal structures that cause them, continue to exist here in southeastern Anatolia in the 21st century," the rally's organizer, Abdulkadir Kak of the local teachers' union, called over a megaphone to applause from the crowd.