Sentence examples for functioning as a fief from inspiring English sources

Brand cannot allow big-time college football to continue functioning as a fief.

Thus he functions as a satirist.

The network functions as a time bank.

"We function as a nonprofit.

It likely functions as a contact call.

This could also function as a bypass.

It functions as a toner or astringent.

This limit functions as a relative absolute.

The dozen-or-so security services (not even PA officials agree on the exact number), which functioned as private fiefs, will be slimmed down, smartened up and brought under central control.

(At the moment the Left parties, who used to run this state as a fief, are leading in only a single constituency).

Without their own state as a fief, the Gandhis look unrooted.