fiefdom in English
According to feudal law, Edward III held Aquitaine as part of his fiefdom .
Use "fiefdom" in a sentence
1. She considers the office as her own private fiefdom.
2. He also helped to turn Texas from a Democrat - controlled state into a Republican fiefdom.
3. Several years ago, casino king Donald Trump almost lost his fiefdom when the ratings companies downgraded his bonds.
4. The ancestors of the Shang had been awarded their fiefdom for helping Yu harness the flood.
5. The raven was determined to fend off any potential threat and maintain its fiefdom of Edge Wood.
6. At the age of 18, the player is assigned a fiefdom to oversee in addition to a substantial amount of land.
7. With the power to deliver the voters of this fiefdom to Boston's Democratic party machine, Patrick's advance was spectacular.
8. Political and the economical dual benefit enticement causes minister doctor takes as the hereditary laurels fiefdom and the land capital of the rebellion.
9. In France, Castellans (known in French as châtelains) who governed castles without resident nobles acquired considerable powers, and the position actually became a hereditary fiefdom.
10. Confucius was from a warrior family. His father Shulianghe was a famous warrior who had military exploits in two battles and owned a fiefdom.
11. In the blackbox of the Chinese Internet, it's almost impossible to know who is protecting users and who is just protecting their fiefdom.
12. He is also criticised for turning the community into a family fiefdom, in which workers get no holidays and his relatives get the best posts.
13. But, for a family of British merchant adventurers, the dream became a reality when they ran a group of islands as a private fiefdom for 150 years.
14. On the one hand enfeoffs into the land provides knight's military fiefdom, establishes the knight system the solid foundation, and becomes the middle ages military feudalism the source.
15. Thus, Ducal Prussia, at the time a fiefdom of the kingdom of Poland, became the first state in Europe to adopt the teachings of Martin Luther officially.
16. Around this time, El Cid, with a combined Christian and Moorish army, began maneuvering in order to create his own fiefdom in the Moorish Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia.
17. Those standing in the muddy courtyard saw the prisoner being led before the person who was now—by default—the highest voice of authority in the fiefdom, and crowded around to hear.
18. 15 After Endor, even having lost faith in the Empire, Syn made no attempts to claim a personal fiefdom, and for the rest of his life remained ostensibly loyal to Coruscant.
19. At best, there is mutual indifference and tolerance; at worst, confrontation and Agonistics between the various camps that are primarily engaged in encampment and enclosure, in securing and defending a regional fiefdom, however small and insignificant