But even on its own feudal terms, this is absurd.
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"It's a feudal way of carrying on," Mr. Davis said.
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Mr Abe comes from Yamaguchi, known in feudal times as Choshu.
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Feudal politicians also have to work harder for their constituents' votes.
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Scotland until 2004 still had a system of feudal land tenure.
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Plenty of actors were about to add to the feudal ambience.
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I am like a feudal prince when it comes to throwing parties.
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WOULD a feudal king swap places with a present-day insurance clerk?
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They destroyed thousands of manuscripts, ancient stone tablets and other "feudal property".
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"feudal," and instead encouraged a new national art form in the socialist
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"Nigerian Catholicism is almost feudal, and the priest is God," she says.
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Her sentence feels, in its elemental simplicity, like something from feudal Japan.
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But in many ways, North Korea still operates like a feudal monarchy.
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He has surrounded himself with land grabbers, feudal lords and rent seekers.
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In the basic bargain of feudal life, a peasant kept one part of his harvest for himself, put one part back into the ground for the next year's harvest, and gave the last part to his feudal lord.
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As in the feudal system before liberalism, the strong prey upon the weak.
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But there was also an uncomfortable sense of feudal entitlement about the affair.
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In 1970 feudal landlords held 42% of the seats in the national parliament.
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The Generalitat began as a feudal institution in the Frankish County of Barcelona.
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The show takes place in a post-apocalyptic world controlled by feudal barons.
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Before this moment in European history, society was largely organized along feudal lines.
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You might begin by making an analogy to feudal landlords and their serfs.
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is no stranger to the bloody side of feudal politics.
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Pakistan has far fewer billionaires than India does, but feudal habits are more ingrained.
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Exhausted by war and still lacking functioning institutions, Ukraine risks descending into feudal violence.
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The practice is feudal, but still applies to nearly one in five English properties.
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That would be easier if buyers could reckon with market prices, not feudal ones.
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"I'd call it a neo-feudal or patrimonial system," says a former finance minister.
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Earlier, the board dominated the lives of the players in a very feudal manner.
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The sun will begin to set on U.S. tech's feudal approach to corporate governance.
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In short, the North Korean party is more feudal than the Soviet party apparatus.
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Why was the move an improvement over the feudal/honor based society it replaced?
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This debt system bound black farmers to the land in an almost feudal fashion.
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One farmer said there is a feudal mind-set among many of his friends.
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Moreover, the Czech regime condemned the harpsichord itself as a feudal and religious instrument.
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America is not some feudal society where class and wealth determine advancement, they say.
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Older residents remember when the temple risked destruction as a den of feudal superstition.
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There, Jia daringly links China's current regime to the country's harsh feudal dynasties. ♦
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As the Japan Times reported, the manuscript was found in an oblong chest in a storeroom at the house of Motofuyu Okochi, a 72-year-old descendant of the former feudal lord of the Mikawa-Yoshida feudal Domain (today's Toyohashi in Aichi Prefecture).
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A supporter dismissed it as "trussing a domestic," a comment that recalled France's feudal past.
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He did not object to the feudal rules as such, just to them being overstepped.
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In 1990s North Korea's Stalinist, quasi-feudal rulers rode out a mass famine without falling.
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Without intervention, Yemen's future might have been that of a largely lawless and feudal country.
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Traditional feudal sheikhdoms with hitherto apparently anachronistic mechanisms for resolving tensions have survived and prospered.
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Ms. Lee and her brother, Jay, said that his father was essentially a feudal lord.
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Tocqueville considered America a historical oddity, a democratic country without an aristocratic or feudal past.
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"It was just feudal, that kind of power," a former neighbor says of the Warner Bros.
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Sekiro is set in a fictionalized version of feudal Japan and is coming out in 2019.
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In other words, like millionaires, feudal lords, and goats, stinkbugs exhibit a preference for high places.
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The feudal lords offer allegiance to the new ruler and continue to oppress the poor villagers.
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Under his deft touch, feudal Japan comes to life in bold strokes of color and light.
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It was a time of feudal exploitation and forced religious conversion, but also of cultural flourishing.
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I also have two hefty volumes of shunga, exquisite pornographic Japanese prints of the feudal period.
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"Having a monarchy doesn't mean a return to a feudal system," said Latin graduate Avery, 22.
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Feudal lords used champerty in precisely the way Thiel is using it, to settle scores against rivals.
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Yet the UFC is still run as a feudal society, with fighters at the mercy of management.
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But hiding behind Sale's gloriously immature workplace vandalism is a downright feudal labor practice: the sports trade.
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Who they vote for is determined by a smile, by a disapproving look from the feudal lord.
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Anner wanted the pastor to understand what he was up against — the feudal history of Casa Blanca.
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Tradition, in this view, is what causes hierarchy — placing feudal landowners above serfs and men above women.
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In it, the tectonic plates of Western political thought shifted from a feudal to a modern location.
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Unfortunately, city agencies are like little feudal states, each constrained by its own budget and narrow mission.
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"The Philippines is still really a semi-feudal democracy," says Leonardo Montemayor, a former secretary of agriculture.
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A semblance of peace was restored when the remaining local feudal warlords, or "daimyo," sought to unify Japan.
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Except everyone has been sent back in time to feudal Japan thanks to Gorilla Grod's time displacement machine.
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Sekiro is a game where you play as a ninja in a fantasy world version of feudal Japan.
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When the King discovers this, he kidnaps Lisa, and Homer must lead a feudal uprising to save her.
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Ghosts of Tsushima I grew up loving the cult fighter Bushido Blade and reading about feudal Japanese history.
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If in the Middle Ages the chief feudal currency was land, in today's Russia it is hydrocarbon wealth.
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But once Japan threw off its feudal system and unified, it became a force to be reckoned with.
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In feudal Japan, the ninjas' infiltration techniques were used with political and military purposes to gather precious information.
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If farms and villages in a feudal agrarian society are being ravaged, there is less revenue coming in.
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His famous father was the embodiment of the traditional "feudal" dynasties that Brotherhood ideologues used to rail against.
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Villages were abandoned, religious houses were dispersed, and minor feudal lords pawned their land to whoever could pay.
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Set against the backdrop of feudal Japan, you take on the role of Wolf, a shinobi who cannot die.
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You'll do all this against a backdrop of interstellar war between five warring houses in a feudal dark age.
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And so they promote policies both nativist and natalist, with feudal undertones, that extol the benefits of breeder housewives.
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He draws an analogy to feudal Europe, before the kings got too powerful and started reining in individual freedom.
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Our law is derived from English common law, and a feudal system historically designed to protect landowners' proprietary interests.
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The other grievance is over the country's narrow, feudal politics, dominated by a handful of rich, aloof Manila families.
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And discontent simmers at the country's narrow, feudal politics, dominated for decades by a handful of wealthy landowning families.
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Her position reflects the same hypocrisy and double standards of the emperors, pharaohs and feudal lords who preceded her.
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A melodrama of village women wronged by their social betters, "The Undesirable" is a window on a feudal world.
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Today, almost everyone would agree that extreme forms of exploitation, like slavery or the feudal system, should be prohibited.
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But a better argument for Sansa to make — beyond feudal politics of loyalty versus treason — would be practical concerns.
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Set in feudal Japan, this game puts even more of a focus on reflex-based fights and vertical gameplay.
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"Sekiro" continues FromSoftware's tradition of difficult games with a samurai adventure set in a mystical version of feudal Japan.
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The builders of the New China did not need his old tales, those remnants of the imperial and feudal system.
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The practice began in feudal Europe, she said, when servants were given something extra on top of their regular wage.
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The "Charter Oath" of April 1868 that formally ended feudal rule decreed that "knowledge shall be sought throughout the world".
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The rise of the feudal governors also coincided with the intensification of efforts by organized crime to control local territories.
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Aichi prefecture markets itself as the "warlords' hometown," as the region was home to the feudal-era warlord Oda Nobunaga.
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The new rules will forbid promises of "fend shui and other feudal superstitions" and "appreciation on investment returns", Xinhua noted.
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By its maturity the empire had evolved into a "mixed monarchy" that was neither feudal nor democratic, federal nor unitary.
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Elections might change the federal and state governments, but the feudal and punitive power structures in the countryside don't change.
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Karl, disgraced and disowned, becomes the leader of a band of robbers who fight the corruption of the feudal system.
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The show started in 2011, deep in President Obama's first term, and a feudal fantasy seemed like a complacent retreat.
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Her paternal great-grandfather was a celebrated professional narrator who traveled around the country, recounting episodes from Japan's feudal history.
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Starting as a feudal society that embraced slavery, the region places a high value on respect for authority and tradition.
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With the middle class leaving in droves, California society represents a modern feudal system of robber barons and the poor.
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Things like hereditary wealth, things like noble titles, monarchy, feudal culture, generation after generation of people tied to their land.
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As the feudal system dissolved, and the Meiji Emperor assumed his office's long-suppressed powers, the race was on to modernize.
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They have created a modern twist on a feudal system, giving jobs and aid to the compliant, and punishing the mutinous.
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But a shift to market reforms, while winning praise from Western governments, would undermine Putin's feudal patronage system and destabilize politics.
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Consequently, I wasn't surprised to learn that Kurosawa's lavish feudal epic Kagemusha (1980) starring Nakadai was one of the artist's inspirations.
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The "Rising Sun" flag, flown by Japanese feudal warlords, was adopted in 1870 as the flag of the Japanese Imperial Army.
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Pero ¿quién mediará entre la derecha católica y feudal y la izquierda adolescente que ha dominado el pulso de las protestas?
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The serene landscapes and bloody action look so, so enticing in this action game set in what looks like feudal Japan.
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This yearning seems especially keen in China, where state television serves up feudal soap operas with the regularity of daily meals.
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The feudal fear of peasant revolt was transplanted to mechanical servants, and worries of a robot uprising have lingered ever since.
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At that time, you had a transition from this feudal economy, in Europe, to a mercantilist ... Where the lord gives everything.
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It causes a lot of poverty, and specifically, urban poverty, so people kind of get booted off of their feudal land.
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Over a third of its population perished from the "Black Death" in the 19503th century, hastening the end of the feudal system.
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Later, the Dutch tried to convince Japan's feudal leadership to open the country to trade with the West, but to no avail.
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President Duterte acted like a feudal king who thinks that being the President is an entitlement to do anything that he pleases.
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Feudal times have passed, but the monarchy still reaps the rewards of the deeply unjust and discriminatory system it was built on.
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Confucius, condemned by Mao as a peddler of feudal thought, is now being proffered as a sage with a message of harmony.
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It says it brought prosperity and freedom to what was a backward and feudal society, including freeing a million people from serfdom.
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IN January 1868 some young samurai and their merchant sympathisers overthrew Japan's Tokugawa shogunate and with it seven centuries of feudal rule.
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The country's most popular musician is Teddy Afro, a 41-year-old whose songs celebrate Ethiopia's former emperors and its feudal past.
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When he was born, his father, a feudal lord, offered 48 demons different parts of his son's body in exchange for power.
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This means piercing the veil of a neo-feudal society that forsakes vital public services in order to exempt itself from taxes.
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After eating, soaking, and wandering aimlessly, I reached Ritsurin Garden, an expansive space established by a feudal lord in the 17th century.
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But Yu was a factory apprentice and he argued in his essay "On Family Origin" that China had a feudal caste system.
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This is a place of futurity, yes, but societally it is almost feudal—a harsh corporate landscape of debt slavery and alienation.
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Quick recap of "Beowulf": A monster named Grendel is slaughtering the denizens of Heorot, a Danish feudal stronghold, on a nightly basis.
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In 2004, it abolished feudal rules that were still in effect, helping many longtime tenants to become outright owners of their land.
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When she was very young, her family, which came from the gentry of feudal times, owned animals and employed gardeners and housekeepers.
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This power has gone to Google, Facebook, Amazon and the other neo-feudal masters that use it to their advantage, not ours.
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The "Duchy of Cornwall," from which comes much of the income Prince Charles donates to his sons, is an old feudal fiefdom.
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The 'Duchy of Cornwall,' from which comes much of the income Prince Charles donates to his sons, is an old feudal fiefdom.
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Upcoming PS4 exclusive Ghost of Tsushima got a nice, in-depth trailer, with four minutes detailing its lush, feudal Japan-inspired world.
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Maybe the fight with the White Walkers will culminate in a radical rethinking of Westeros' current feudal system, creating a strong centralized government.
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Smith explained how the imposition of Marxist-Leninist dogma on top of the czarist-era feudal mindset created a different pattern of thinking.
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The film is the latest adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic 1965 science fiction novel, set on a desert planet in a feudal galaxy.
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Squeezed between the Russian and the Ottoman Empires, this part of the world is a semi-feudal patchwork of villages, monasteries and estates.
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According to this view, elites don't even need nepotism — they are using preexisting wealth and inheritance to rebuild an old-fashioned feudal class.
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But Samurai Shodown, set during Japan's feudal era, focuses on weapon-based combat favoring well-placed strikes rather than over-the-top combos.
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This is the fundamental problem of feudalism: The feudal state divides its authority and dilutes its power even as it grows in capacity.
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Meanwhile feuding has become a pastime of the feudal class, as Islamic inheritance laws requiring an equal split among male heirs fragment estates.
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That is not because any of them trust the North Korean regime, a blend of Stalinist personality cult and blood-soaked feudal dynasty.
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More than a century earlier, the Count of Barcelona had, by marriage, merged his feudal principality of Catalonia into the Kingdom of Aragon.
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Anderson sees this pattern pretty much everywhere, and if not from colonial governments, then from the feudal arrangements of the late Middle Ages.
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The highly anticipated return of Tetsurō Araki's feudal future anime after three years brought all the spectacle and brutality anyone could hope for.
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Even though all characters are anthropomorphic animals, every other detail of Edo-era feudal Japan (roughly 1600-1860) is faithfully rendered by Sakai.
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If the people are going to be taxed, shouldn't they get something out of it beyond the feudal protection of their liege lords?
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In an unusually feudal touch, the convention in Cleveland heard speeches from several Trump employees, including the manager of his Virginia wine estates.
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The park itself loses its borders; animals and people cross in and out of parallel parks based on colonial India and feudal Japan.
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So much of Game of Thrones is about one's name, one's house, and one's status—that's the organizing feature of a feudal society.
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However, criminal profiteers in northern China routinely break the rules and enable a thriving black market that feeds the feudal lords in Pyongyang.
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From there, it is used in England and France and elsewhere to extort Jews, increase feudal lords' power and make themselves look good.
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Though the workfare program may skew national employment figures and exacerbate feudal dynamics in the countryside, it has nevertheless improved lives in Siklosnagyfalu.
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It was then replaced by a Marxist interpretation of history, which saw society as evolutionary, from feudal to capitalist to socialist to communist.
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Algerian republicans deride Morocco's monarch as feudal, and because of the kingdom's land-grab of Western Sahara call him the world's last colonial ruler.
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It's the same generational gene that turns every exurb dad into a feudal lord demanding a server's fealty when he steps into an Applebee's.
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My Feudal Lord: A Devastating Indictment of Women's Role in Muslim Society was a bestseller around the world and was translated into 39 languages.
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Democracy serves a singular purpose in the village: to maintain the power of our feudal lords and to further enrich them and their families.
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That's excellent news, given that the film will depend on them to convey its famously complicated story of a feudal struggle in the distant future.
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James really wants to establish a feudal domain in the greater Akron metropolitan area, and award all of his preferred teammates with Lands and Lordships.
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Noting how they like to copy the old feudal style, with big cars, browbeaten servants and brazen tax avoidance, Mr Laleka calls them "pseudo-feudals".
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The free internet, a concept very close to the hearts of both designers, takes on a somewhat feudal air when only sysadmins call the shots.
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This, he said, was followed by the federal government ceding control of the states and the growth of what became known as the feudal governors.
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As one of the country's largest landowners, the family was denounced by pro-modernization voices, and later, the Communists, as remnants of the feudal order.
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Ignoring the quasi-feudal scene, I made my case for modernizing India, emphasizing the political gains Congress could make by extending freedom to the economy.
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The Roys have this almost feudal feeling of having unlimited power and being above the law, almost like Kings and Queens, hence the name Succession.
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This ceremonial offering eventually evolved into an Edo-era ritual during which the shogun bestowed confections on his daimyo (feudal lords) as they swore fealty.
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There's also a moment when we see hosts dressed as Samurai, suggesting that feudal Japan could be a theme of another park within the Westworld universe.
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Slower and more contemplative, Harakiri opens on Tsugumo Hanshiro, a ronin (masterless samurai), as he arrives at the palace of the feudal lord in 1630 Japan.
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Curiously, this "tiny feudal outpost of the British crown" hosted the gestation and birth of a book that won hearts and changed minds across the world.
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His stylish animated series, about a feudal Japanese samurai stuck in a dystopian far future launched in 2001, and ran for four seasons on Cartoon Network.
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By one count, feudal representation in parliament has dropped to around a quarter, drawn mainly from rural areas in south Punjab and the province of Sindh.
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He was a veteran military campaigner and feudal lord who took part in the reunification of Japan, which had been ravaged by a century of war.
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The book provides a short history of the evolution of community, state and market in Europe, which begins in the stifling world of the feudal manor.
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This is probably why nobody in Edo World seems to like Musashi, though being the Hector of Feudal Japan also isn't winning him any personality contests.
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Roderick and his family brave feudal conditions, toiling as tenant farmers on a small allotment, harvesting peat for fuel and scavenging seaweed to fertilize their gardens.
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They shared their wondrous creations and played the rest of us for suckers, collecting our admiration, our attention and our data as profit and feudal tribute.
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During a visit last month, Tehmina Durrani's "My Feudal Lord," Pervez Musharraf's "In the Line of Fire" and Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" were on view.
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And if mumble rap were a feudal kingdom, Gazzy Garcia, more commonly known as the rapper Lil Pump, would be one of its most important lords.
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As the importance of the court declined, and the feudal, polycentric system of warrior potentates rose, so too did the manufacture of paper decentralize and proliferate.
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It portrayed Washington as a permanent feudal village of bipartisan politicians, former officeholders, celebrity staff members, lobbyists, journalists, hangers-on and usual-suspects of all stripes.
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Though I sometimes found myself lost in the timeline that sprawls from feudal England to modern America, I thought Stoll told a complicated, multicentury story well.
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It is telling, though, that the only two times the international body has involved itself in Indonesian football have come when their feudal representation has been challenged.
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Hong Kong (CNN)When feudal Japan's most powerful warlord Nobunaga Oda met Yasuke, a black slave-turned-retainer, in 15903, he believed the man was a god.
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Whereas independent India rid itself of much of that feudal class, Pakistan's feeble attempts at land reform were ruled un-Islamic by its Supreme Court in 1990.
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For centuries poets and azmaris, the bards and original satirists of highland Ethiopia, celebrated the glory of feudal overlords in songs that shrewdly hid their true meaning.
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Okinawa was a weaponless kingdom since feudal times and so Shotokan's Secret examines the classical forms ( kata) of the Shuri lineage karate styles with this in mind.
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The end of 10 years of civil war in 2006 and the abolition of a 239-year-old feudal monarchy two years later raised hopes of reform.
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For instance, there are reports of Hindu women committing suicide because of pressures on families to deliver large dowry payments, in a system that echoes feudal customs.
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The Communist census-takers who came to her remote fishing village were appalled by this relic of a feudal past, with her bound feet and bent body.
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The recorded history of Iceland spans more than a millennium, but its transition from an agricultural feudal state to modern society was compressed into just seven decades.
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Mr. Nishikori captures a sun-dappled Shimane Prefecture and the dynamics of Japanese feudal society, and his battle scenes have a laudably realistic grit, with minimal gore.
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Fox, which is controlled by the Murdoch family using a feudal shareholder structure, is teaming with Blackstone to run the numbers on Tribune and its 42 stations.
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I was also motivated to use it because I wanted to recreate the feeling of a general giving orders to a fray of soldiers in feudal battles.
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Nepal has increasingly moved toward ending discrimination against women since it emerged from a decade-long civil war in 2006 and abolished the feudal monarchy two years later.
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The fact that this reflects the gods' high self-esteem, their power and the brutal, feudal nature of the societies from which these myths spring is left unsaid.
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Their culture and their distinctiveness from humanity was fleshed out, until the Klingons became a warrior race defined by a sense of honor borrowed from feudal Japanese culture.
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Among the 25 chapters there are a smattering that discuss places where the creators, by and large artists in these cases, have less feudal connections to the land.
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The result was multiple strands of governing hierarchies rooted in the feudal system, each level able to make its own decisions while being subservient to those higher up.
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He also taps into what Richard Javad Heydarian, a political analyst, calls "cacique democracy fatigue": fading tolerance of a feudal politics long dominated by a few prominent families.
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The illustrated exercises in "De Arte Gymnastica" were aimed at Renaissance princelings; the feudal peasants laboring on the nobility's vast estates could hardly avoid sustained and strenuous activity.
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Electoral seats in Pakistan's parliament are assigned using population density data, and with rural populations fluctuating due to urbanization, powerful feudal landlords and political families fear losing influence.
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Ethically, college basketball is difficult to support—it's less destructive than college football, but no less feudal or exploitive, and equally shot through with weird and rancid politics.
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Alam's lawyer, Shahdeen Malik, said his comments during the protests did not constitute a criminal offence, and that Hasina's remarks regarding Alam's uncle suggested a "feudal" justice system.
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As such, David's art, which drew inspiration from Roman antiquity, reflects the end of France's monarchy-aristocracy and abolition of the Feudal system, even while looking incredibly grandiose.
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Their protest was against the custom, inherited from the Middle Ages, in which bosses (or feudal lords) compelled sexual services from the young women who worked for them.
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The driving ambition of modern civilization has been to pull us out of a feudal existence, to extend what were once thought of as luxuries to everyday people.
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Yukio Ninagawa's production of Shakespeare's tragedy, performed in Japanese with English supertitles, relocates the action from medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, recalibrating the witches, woods and political ambition.
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Then there's "Silence," a decades-in-the-making religious drama from Martin Scorsese that follows a pair of priests as they search for their mentor in feudal Japan.
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Into his 20s, the prince is said to have received feudal dues of 100 silver shillings and a pound of peppercorns from the mayor of Launceston in Cornwall.
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Subject to the whims of their padroni — the men who owned the feudal land upon which they toiled — Italian women were commonly the victims of institutionalized, systematic rape.
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The trail follows easements through ancient family farmsteads and bisects a shady wood, a remnant of the Gascon forests that served as hunting grounds for local feudal estates.
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If we work to reverse this income gap through public policy, we also help disrupt the feudal artist-patron problem, which, again, is a barrier to new voices.
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"The Peony Pavilion" from the late Ming dynasty was banned in the Qing because it challenged feudal morality, meaning the protagonists in the story chose their own spouses.
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The separatists make much of the War of the Spanish Succession, when the victorious Bourbon monarch, Philip V, conquered Barcelona after a gruelling siege and abolished Aragon's feudal "constitutions".
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The novels follows Roland Deschain (aka the Gunslinger), through a fantastic feudal society, as he quests to discover the Dark Tower, which is said to connect various universes together.
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Since he hasn't been able to shake off the yoke of feudal power in the 69 years of Pakistan's existence, this perception is not going to change anytime soon.
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When Russian-backed separatists invaded eastern Ukraine and Crimea in 2014, the country's oligarchs banded together like feudal lords, protecting their country—or their profits, depending on the view.
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Although your book is praised for laying bare the inequities of the Russian feudal system, a closer reading shows that you refuse to imagine any alternative to that system.
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"We cannot accept the use of feudal superstition to slander this building," Pan Shiyi, the chairman of SOHO China, wrote on Thursday on Weibo, a popular social media site.
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"Game of Thrones" returns on Sunday, and with it, the inevitable onslaught of "winter is finally here" memes and a sudden obsession with dragons, knights and internecine feudal politics.
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This is progress over the old feudal system, and it helps to establish the importance of freedom and equality, but it can't really deliver it in any meaningful way.
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"This was a feudal society well into the 20th century, where people relied on their faith and local healers because they had no access to modern medicine," he said.
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"The Jar" is a wild political comedy about a tyrannical feudal lord, Don Lollo, who orders a gigantic human-size clay pot to hold his estate's great olive harvest.
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Here, you thought at first glance, was a take on "Figaro" that would emphasize the oppression of the feudal system that burdens its characters and motivates their anxious farce.
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This Easter Sunday, March 29, you will finally get the chance to combine your loves of feudal-fantasy and deep house at the UK's first ever Rave of Thrones.
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In the middle ages, every man, especially those who had obligations as part of the feudal system, would be required to be proficient at fighting, especially as means of warfare.
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If you paid attention in history class, you might recall learning about tarring and feathering ... an old form of public humiliation used in feudal Europe, and even here in America.
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Despite the 1955 legislation, centuries-old feudal attitudes persist in many parts of India and low-caste people, or Dalits, still face prejudice in every sector from education to employment.
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In 1974 students and soldiers toppled the feudal empire of Haile Selassie and replaced it with the Derg, a Marxist junta that forced peasants onto collective farms, where they starved.
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But the poll is nevertheless a sign of change: until 2008 Sark was governed by a feudal constitution that had remained largely untouched since the island was colonised in 1565.
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If I'm gonna live in this feudal anime future dominated by evil corporatist overlords, subsumed by debt and badgered by Christian crusaders, I'm gonna do it sober and cumming everywhere.
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Dominating the television comedy scene in the 1970s and 1980s, one of his best-known acts was a clueless feudal lord with a face painted white with thick black eyebrows.
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That the institution of the Dalai Lama is outdated, and emerged from the feudal system, and that he is proud to have "ended" it (debatable whether this has really happened).
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On top of that, the feudal Japanese setting is rich, beautifully designed, and a refreshing change of pace from the medieval fantasy and horror elements of past From Software titles.
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As its title implies, this is another Fighting Fantasy offering that mostly ditches monsters and magic for something really rather different—Feudal Japan and a striking story of loyalty and honor.
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Kubo and the Two Strings, from stop motion studio Laika, is a tale of the power of storytelling, memories, and what makes us human—set against a brilliantly animated feudal Japan.
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"Rajasthan is a feudal sort of a state, and on the face of it everything looks like it did ten years ago, but actually there are huge social changes," he says.
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Entrenched local powerbrokers, who include feudal lords, tribal chiefs, clan elders and spiritual leaders and are known in Pakistan as "electables", hold about a quarter of Punjab's 141 elected parliamentary seats.
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For him power is inherently evil because it corrupts – a strong perception built over time by the prevalent abuse of power by the feudal and traditional politicians entrenched in our society.
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In public, and in polemical language that is absent from her novel, Ms Tokarczuk was reminding Poles that they, too, have been exploitative, feudal and, on rare occasions, lethally anti-Semitic.
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Since the Enlightenment, Russia's ruling class had debated whether to westernize, and foreign kibitzers were divided over whether and how to extend civilization to Russia's feudal society of aristocrats and serfs.
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The Civil War, Cook writes, was therefore less a war between a capitalist North and pre-capitalist or feudal South, but between two capitalist polities, undergirded by different types of capital.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — A group of Lebanese professors, architects and filmmakers has fashioned an unlikely alternative to the bickering feudal political bosses who for decades have kept their country mired in stalemate.
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After India's independence and the abolition in the 1970s of the last vestiges of the princely feudal system, Bikaner House was vacated by its noble tenants and put to civic use.
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Hollywood studios once wielded nearly feudal levels of power: Backlots were essentially self-sufficient, from the colossal ranch of Warner Brothers to the palatial surroundings of the 20th Century Fox lot.
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And Japanese theater, long a fixture of the Lincoln Center Festival, will return, with a revival of Yukio Ninagawa's 1980 production of "Macbeth," set among the cherry blossoms of feudal Japan.
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I am renting a theater from a landlord, and the landlord made the deal with Ticketmaster, so I'm in a bit of a feudal — Does that change for producers like yourself?
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But by the onset of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, Picasso had been rebranded as decadent, feudal and a "poisonous weed" by People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party.
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It felt difficult to square the democratic world outside the office with the feudal arrangement inside it; I spent a lot of time marveling at the cognitive dissonance of it all.
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Against the odds though, in 20193 the scrunchie ascended to its throne at the top of the high school feudal system thanks to a niche trend popularized on TikTok: VSCO girls.
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THE story of Japan's modernisation began 150 years ago this month, when a band of young samurai and their allies overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate and with it seven centuries of feudal rule.
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When a feudal lord threw a ten-year-old boy into a thresher in 2013, severing both his arms, the outcry on social media led to his arrest, although not his conviction.
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Imran Khan, a leader of the opposition, blames feudalism for the country's "grossly unfair social system", but is now wooing the feudal barons in his bid for power in next year's election.
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PARIS/FLAGY, France (Reuters) - In 1789, Louis XVI summoned France's aristocracy, clergy and citizens to discuss ways to plug the crown's dismal finances and quell popular discontent over a sclerotic feudal society.
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The country's lack of a feudal past meant there were no other overarching ideas about how to organize society, achieve self-governance, or define the relationship between the state and the economy.
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In her sequel, THE BUTCHER BIRD (Pegasus Crime, $25.95), the plague has passed, leaving the ancient feudal system in chaos and the rule of law degenerating in the face of mob violence.
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" Make comparisons or analogies to explain things: "If mumble rap were a feudal kingdom, Gazzy Garcia, more commonly known as the rapper Lil Pump, would be one of its most important lords.
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This premodern craving for a world in which everyone and everything has a place surfaces time and again, in the royal nuptials, in feudal fiction, even in the gilded carriage denied Trump.
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What's happening, we ultimately discovered, is that Europe's farm subsidies are being used to prop up oligarchs, underwrite Mafia-style land grabs and create a modern spin on a corrupt feudal system.
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Following the Meiji Restoration, in 1868, reformers united Japan under a "restored" emperor, and, after centuries of isolationism and feudal rule, set about turning the country into a modern bureaucratic military power.
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The picture he paints of an almost feudal patriarchy presided over by Trump appears to be validated by the way the President casually fires aides on Twitter and undermines his top aides.
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An insider-outsider wherever he went, Singh was born to a feudal upper-class family in Rajasthan who lost most of their land and fortune following India's independence in 1947 from Britain.
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In "Utopia," published in 1516, Thomas More suggests it as a way to help feudal farmers hurt by the conversion of common land for public use into private land for commercial use.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A key Chinese regulator has issued a notice demanding broadcasters distribute programs that promote "core socialist values", and "forcefully oppose" content that celebrates money worship, hedonism, radical individualism and feudal thought.
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Like the colonizing forces of the West itself, Westworld itself has expanded this season to show us new parks with imagined settings in British-ruled India (the Raj) and feudal Japan (Shogun World).
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The unwritten rules of the criminal underworld developed under the tsars, when the country's serfs—a big chunk of the population—lived under a code that smiled on occasional diddling of feudal overlords.
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They belonged to the bushi class, a noble class of feudal Japanese warriors, and helped settle new lands, defend their territory, and even had a legal right to supervise lands as jito (stewards).
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The Japan I saw was full of contradictions: It was ancient and modern, western and eastern, democratic and feudal, peaceful and anarchic, sacred and profane, anonymous and unique—just to name a few.
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Supporters of Rodrigo Duterte, the front-runner to win the presidential election in the Philippines on May 9th, hope he will open up a feudal political system that has allowed cronyism to flourish.
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It was accepted wisdom that it was futile to press the Saudis on the feudal, the degradation of women and human rights atrocities, because it would just make them dig in their heels.
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In the 1850s, as foreign ships converge on Japan, a feudal lord contrives a race to strengthen the minds and bodies of his men for a potential invasion, and his daughter joins in.
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In truth, Modernism, whether European or Japanese, developed roots in countries in which the political and economic structures of so-called modernity were felt unevenly, mitigated by the resilience of older, feudal traditions.
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When outside forces sought to introduce the feudal system of land ownership into Raetia, the common associations fragmented into smaller units called communes, made up of the region's even smaller villages and neighborhoods.
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Whatever else Americans may need in our next commander in chief, what we don't need is an irascible executive running an administration along feudal lines, with the serfs made to pay the price.
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It's described as a "rhythm-action adventure," and a brief teaser shows off a rabbit and giant frog in what looks to be feudal Japan — albeit with drones and UFOs flying through the background.
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The Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun adds that the manuscript had been kept at the Okochi family's home since 1743 when it was gifted to them by another feudal family in the area of Fukuoka.
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It sounds like a scene from China's feudal past, when early marriage was customary, especially for girls, but teenage brides and grooms aren't uncommon in some poor and rural parts of the country's hinterland.
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Their extra-long counter-revolutionary banner was called irresponsible by the students, so careful, so stupidly polite, kneeling down to present their petition to the prime minister, like the subjects of a feudal monarch.
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In the western state of Punjab, where a feudal system has denied Dalits their right to a third of village common farmland - more than 50,000 acres - Dalits have formed collectives over the past decade.
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Ninja skills were already part of the martial arts for hundreds of years, beginning in earnest in 15th Century Feudal Japan with its antecedents being traced back to the 12th Century (thank you, Wikipedia!).
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What Bruce Schneier said about security is increasingly true of commerce online: You want to be in the good graces of one of the neo-feudal giants who bring order to a lawless realm.
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The real origins of Boxing Day go back to feudal times, when workers on a lord's estate would ask, on this day, for a Christmas box, in exchange for good service throughout the year.
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Formed and reformed through six centuries of feudal alliances, dynastic marriages, wars and Great Power bargains, the Hapsburg Empire was on its way to becoming a modern multinational state by the late 19th century.
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Sison saw U.S. imperialism and the Philippines' feudal state as inextricably linked: in exchange for maintaining access to military bases during the Vietnam War, the U.S. allowed Marcos to continue to oppress the Philippines.
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Most is ancient landholding, but it also includes feudal rights like bona vacantia, which means that the Prince inherits all property left by commoners who die without a will or a next of kin.
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Ghost of Tsushima is an upcoming title set in feudal Japan from the makers of the Infamous series of superhero games, and they just showed off the first gameplay trailer for the PlayStation 4 exclusive.
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The new Team Ninja game that delivers Dark Souls-style RPG play in feudal Japan has now been completed in one hour and 40 minutes — by speedrunner Distortion2 — and you can see video proof above.
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Lazarus is a comic book series created by Greg Rucka (who also created Jessica Jones) that takes place in the near future, focused on feudal conflicts among 16 families who between them control the world.
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The city government has a modest budget and limited influence over planning in the city, the country's capital, but most authority rests with the national government, still securely under the control of the feudal establishment.
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As per usual, Lupe Fiasco has arrived, like the legendary feudal Japanese thief Ishikawa Goemon, to save the day for these heads, engaging in a war of rhymes this week with battle-rapper Daylyt a.k.a.
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Her book spans four generations of the Sadrs, from the great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, a feudal landowner in Mazandaran, to his daughter Nour, to Nour's six sons, among them Darius, the father of Kimia, the narrator.
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