1. Smaller crusader fiefdoms survived until 1291.

2. Employees and their managers lost touch with their customers and fiefdoms arose.

3. For a century after 1467, warring feudal lords divided Japan into a number of fiefdoms.

4. Our new architecture broke up those functional fiefdoms and broke down those functional walls.

5. The rival factions have carved fiefdoms within the government, with more powerful faction leaders claiming seats on the Council of State.

6. The quest for total knowledge, along with his own revolutionary credentials, enabled him to outmanoeuvre colleagues who wanted to preserve their own fiefdoms within the leadership.

7. Despite this pleasant symmetry, the Contentiousness of the health debate continues, pitting intrusive political forces against special-interest fiefdoms, while innocents caught in the crossfire are powerless to shape the outcome