Sentence examples for fief for from inspiring English sources

He also renamed Congo as Zaire, and ruled it as his personal fief for 32 years.

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

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.

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

After all, he has rarely been willing to loosen his grip on a country that he treated as his fief for the better part of 40 years, despite his ousting from the presidency after mass demonstrations in 2011.

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.

But those who have bestrode their fiefs for decades often get to decide their departure date.

The ecclesiastical princes henceforth held only their temporal lands as imperial fiefs, for which they owed personal and material services.

Because several provinces in Mindanao constitute a semiautonomous Muslim region, a provincial governor has the authority to carve up a province into smaller fiefs for his sons.

A good third of her MPs dare not visit their fiefs for fear of being lynched for treating their constituencies as cash tills.

Experience since the fall of Saddam Hussein suggests that parties treat ministries as fiefs for packing with placemen and dispensing patronage.