Sentence examples for fief on from inspiring English sources
(In the same account, this friend is the one who drove the moustachioed outlaw from Thailand back to his fief on the Myanmar border).Na Kham Mwe's new enemy, Mr Chalerm, is himself no stranger to controversy.
The insular criminal world it portrays -- a hothouse fief on the verge of implosion -- couldn't be meaner, grubbier and less glamorous.
Sheik Talal Salim al-Khalidi, the portly chieftain of the Bani Khalid tribe, stomped through a farming hamlet in his fief on the broad, flat Mosul plains, gloating that the mud oozing underfoot heralded an auspicious sign in the face of a possible American attack.
It is the fief of twin brothers on whom many Democratic hopes are pinned: Julián Castro, San Antonio's mayor, and a newly elected congressman for the west of the city, Joaquín Castro.
It has since created a fief of mini-niches, one of which lionizes women who operate beyond the bounds of the law to find kidnapped children, missing sisters and so on.
They are genes dmeF (Rmet_0198 on CHR1) and fieF (Rmet_3406 on CHR2) encoding CDF-type transporters, and the atmA gene (Rmet_0391 on CHR1) coding for an ABC-type transporter.
Land owned by noble families (predominantly rulers) that was given as fief to tenants on a share cropping or tribute/tax basis.
In what appeared to be coordinated attacks, forces from three neighboring provinces moved on districts in Herat Province, the fief of the powerful warlord Ismail Khan.
According to the Records of the Grand Historian, after the collapse of the Qin dynasty the hegemon Xiang Yu appointed Liu Bang as prince of the small fief of Hanzhong, named after its location on the Han River (in modern southwest Shaanxi).
Mr Luzhkov is the embodiment of a 1990s paternalistic leader who ran Moscow as his fief, drawing on the support of the population.
Trained in the law, Mantel can see the understated heroism in the skilled administrator's day-to-day decisions in service of a well-ordered civil society — not of a medieval fief based on war and not, heaven help us, a utopia.
