Sentence examples for independent fiefdoms from inspiring English sources

"They run independent fiefdoms".

Landed families control independent fiefdoms in much of the countryside.

Especially influential were a few magnate families whose huge estates formed virtually independent fiefdoms, with their own privately armed militias.

He also encouraged more co-operation and less competition among its 17 curatorial departments, which some saw as independent fiefdoms.

While giving titular obedience to the Portuguese crown, the prazo-holders built up private armies and virtually independent fiefdoms.

At the opening of the Civil War, the Treasury was a bureaucratic tangle of independent fiefdoms, marred by decades of mismanagement.

Soon after arriving he announced that he would merge the museum departments dealing with American painting and American decorative arts, which had long been run as quasi-independent fiefdoms.

Without central direction, these offices have become semi-independent fiefdoms, each jealous of its powers and prerogatives.

The internet is increasingly dividing into independent and militant fiefdoms, almost the antithesis of what it was all supposed to be about.

Haftar has carved out a powerful fiefdom independent of the weak but internationally supported administration in the capital, Tripoli.

The fiefdoms are independent.