Sentence examples for maintained almost feudal from inspiring English sources

Analysts say he has maintained almost feudal control through a mix of favors and violence.

The detonation velocity maintains almost a CJ value.

The most important senators were the great landowners throughout the empire, whose position became almost feudal.

Golf embodies a clubbish elitism, an almost feudal social order and a perfect opportunity for networking.

The former planning minister Nick Raynsford has described the prince's intervention as "almost feudal".

But in the forbidding, almost feudal backdrop of the Clinton Correctional Facility, his efforts seemed increasingly irrelevant.

Like Mrs. Astor, she embraced the responsibilities of her wealth and position in a manner that was almost feudal.

There are still many places where people are forced to buy their water from private wells owned by the Mafia--an almost feudal situation.

Yet the exploiters, the incomers, can be decent people with agonisingly good intentions, muddled by suspicions and difficult, almost feudal loyalties of their own.

Nevertheless Simon Jenkins, the chair of the National Trust, has asserted an unqualified and almost feudal right to complain about prospective wind turbines that "blot the landscape when seen from our territory".

In his memoir, David Rockefeller describes the almost feudal arrangement that existed: "Eventually the family accumulated about 3,400 acres that surrounded and included almost all of the little village of Pocantico Hills, where most of the residents worked for the family and lived in houses owned by Grandfather".