Sentence examples for fief in from inspiring English sources
That ignores the fact that the Longhorns are basically running their own fief in that league.
And in October the army launched an assault on his former fief, in South Waziristan.
This manuscript supposedly told the story of Broken, a once-powerful fief in the Harz Mountains.
Renesas Electronics, a Japanese company, holds the largest fief in this fragmented terrain.
By 1997, General Dostum had built a private fief in Mazar-i-Sharif, population roughly two million.
An opposition newspaper has warned darkly of puritanical Islamists declaring their own fief in some backwater town.
In 1185 he issued an "assize" at Rennes regularizing the succession to military fiefs in Brittany.
In return he promised in a secret treaty (1617) to cede to them Alsace and the imperial fiefs in Italy.
Still, Ms. Harman called Mr. Cambone's task of integrating eight intelligence fiefs in the Pentagon one that would "inevitably involve breaking some china".
Henry, who had refused to answer the charges in the king's court, was deprived of his two duchies and of all imperial fiefs, in 1180.
Many important fiefs in the economy are occupied by unsavoury entities connected to the Revolutionary Guard, part guerrilla army and part intelligence agency.
