Sentence examples for private kingdoms from inspiring English sources

The Sea Islands were early looked upon as private kingdoms.

Today, many of these private kingdoms rival the nation's mightiest public companies.

Many of its politicians see nothing wrong with stealing public money or appointing relatives to jobs within their private kingdoms, and refuse to resign when found out.

He recognised that business people are often ruthless monomaniacs, obsessed by their dreams of building "private kingdoms" and willing to do anything to crush their rivals.Schumpeter's ability to see business straight would be reason enough to name our new business column after him.

"The challenge was being allowed to enter his private kingdom".

Entrepreneurs are possessed by "the dream and the will to found a private kingdom".

Leopold, king of the Belgians, grabbed it in 1885 to make himself a private kingdom.

Put in charge of the General Services Agency, Liberia's main procurement office, Taylor ran it as his own private kingdom.

I asked if technology — Saudis love their cells, Berries and computers, and Bluetooth flirting is rampant in malls — would pry open the obsessively private kingdom.

He treated Turkmenistan as his private kingdom, a land in which everything belonged to him, including the country's plentiful natural gas — much of which issued into the air from his own person in the form of interminable speechifying.

Elise, grateful to escape her lonely life as a spinster librarian in New York City, is a willing partner in Herbie's vision of the island as their private kingdom: "The two of them alone in an untamed place and nothing in the world to intrude on the slow unfolding of a peace and happiness so vast she couldn't put a name to it".