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The verdict was overwhelming; yet the day-long debate that preceded it suggested Britain's latest military campaign has been launched reluctantly and with much confusion about what, exactly, is the point of it.The parliamentary motion is limited to bombing IS in Iraq, even though the militants' fief is also spread across northern Syria.

Nestled amid palm groves just across the river from the Abu Risha fief is the seat of the Abu Dhiab tribe.

The RJD's fief is Bihar, which, with more than 80m people, is India's third most populous state, and the one where crime and politics are most inextricably linked.

Dr. Karadzic's onetime fief is in the mountains above the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, whose siege between 1992 and 1995 led to his indictment for genocide by the international criminal tribunal in The Hague.

Most of it came from the 2010 World Cup: television rights yielded $2.4 billion and marketing rights $1.1 billion.Redistribution in FIFA's fief is called "development" spending, intended mainly to improve facilities and coaching in poor countries, which amounted to $794m in 2007-10.

But he is a feudal baron whose fief is protected by a loyal police, courts and economic interests beyond the Kremlin's reach.In this section Moderate and happy Erdogan wins again Viktor ludorum Luzhkov v Medvedev Green shooters From Berlin to Beijing?

What might have become just another gerrymandered fief was instead born competitive.

The days when America can reasonably claim the Internet as its fief are running out.

During the Tokugawa shogunate (1603 1867), the family's Satsuma fief was the third largest in the country.

He cautioned against reducing the great variety of fiefs to a single type, because each fief was different from the others.

The fief holder swore fidelity to the person from whom the fief was held (the lord, dominus, or seigneur) and became his (or her) man.