Sentence examples for private fief from inspiring English sources
Another bit in the south is a private fief with ties to shady elements in Russia.
By 1997, General Dostum had built a private fief in Mazar-i-Sharif, population roughly two million.
Karjakin's sudden opportunity will appeal to Moscow officials who in Soviet times regarded the world crown as their private fief.
Under this line of thinking, the family is so angered that shareholders killed the buyout that the Dolans now consider the company their own private fief.
Since 1982, Mr. Wheeler, who is almost 57 -- he was born on Feb. 29, 1944, a leap year -- has been sole owner of what amounts to a private fief.
Last year's AGM was notable for an attempt by shareholders to oust Disney's chairman and chief executive, Michael Eisner, long accused of running the board as a private fief.
In many ways, these companies are run as the private fiefs of senior managers.
Crippled by corruption and inefficiency, departments in many ministries are all but private fiefs.
On one side are the Portnoys, who have long blurred the lines between their public companies and their private fiefs.
Even the most desolate sweeps of desert are private fiefs protected by the toughest trespassing laws in the country.
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.
