Pérez does not tolerate any rival factions within his fiefdom.
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Libby spent years overseeing a mini fiefdom in the West Wing.
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Android is supposed to be the egalitarian alternative to the iOS fiefdom.
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Michelangelo doesn't want a fiefdom in the Balkans; he wants cold, hard ducats.
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Media have often commented that he ran the company like a personal fiefdom.
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Of course, FIFA still has plenty of discriminatory concerns in its own fiefdom.
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One of them, a mustachioed Hispanic man, seems sincerely proud of his depressing fiefdom.
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"Adding to that, every park is its own special, semi-autonomous fiefdom," they said.
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Paranoid about competing centers of influence, Qaddafi reduced the Libyan army to a personal fiefdom.
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Not in some corny-ass sports way but, like, actually the king, owning the fiefdom.
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Hamas overran the remnants of the Palestinian authority in Gaza and created its own fiefdom.
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It is an autonomous fiefdom governed separately from greater London, with its eight million inhabitants.
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He runs it like his own personal fiefdom — even though it's part of the Russian Federation.
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Grondona ran the AFA as his personal fiefdom for 35 years until his death in 2014.
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He has never held government office and his businesses have always been run as a fiefdom.
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Holland is the behind-the-scenes dealmaker responsible for expanding Netflix's fiefdom of binge-worthy entertainment.
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How does one say &aposNo,&apos diplomatically and safely, to someone like Kadyrov in his own fiefdom?
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Each family was a miniature fiefdom, in which women were little more than vassals of family honor.
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Djukanovic and his family treat Montenegro like a fiefdom where greed and violence go hand in hand.
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San Miguel Totolapan is a fiefdom of Los Tequileros, one of the bloodiest criminal gangs in Guerrero.
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"Many prisoners roll the TV room like it's their fiefdom, gambling and yelling and hustling," he said.
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Each body views itself as an independent fiefdom, governed by its own rules and codes of conduct.
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Mr Kadyrov, in turn, is allowed to run the republic as a private fiefdom, with his own army.
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Over time, each sector became an aggressive fiefdom, taking greater risks to win resources and advance China's ambitions.
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What constitutes genuine Islamic State action outside its Middle East fiefdom is a question bedeviling security agencies worldwide.
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What I didn't realize then was that Chrome would also wall me into Google's fiefdom in a new way.
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Like the demented prince of a plague-ridden kingdom, Giuliani felt the need to protect his digital fiefdom from invaders.
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Ramzan Kadyrov has been running Chechnya as his own fiefdom with the Kremlin's blessing for close to a decade already.
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Valls' office said he would speak in the town of Evry, his political fiefdom a short drive south of Paris.
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He found a safe space in New England where he has entrenched himself in a fiefdom of football knob-slobbery.
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From almost his first day in office, Trump has tried to make the Justice Department into a kind of personal fiefdom.
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At the self-contained fiefdom that is the JW Marriott Desert Ridge, the Institute for Nonprofit News is holding its annual conference.
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Even more importantly, a CEO of a privately held company (like the Trump organization) operates like a king over his personal fiefdom.
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The establishment Spurs and Thunder are their most daunting opponents, and the Cavaliers continue to treat the Eastern Conference as a fiefdom.
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Using forced labor, Stanley oversaw the backbreaking construction of roads across the Congo, helping Leopold claim the territory as a private 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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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 brazenness of the repression high-lights the extent to which Chechnya has become a fiefdom unto itself under its leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.
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First, the debates are the personal fiefdom of the two political parties pirouetting under the lofty title of the Commission for Presidential Debates.
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Aisles of high-design tables and interactive exhibits represented companies like Google, Microsoft, and Cisco, as well as startups from every VC fiefdom.
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By adopting many of the tactics Islamic State uses to control its territory in Syria and Iraq, AQAP has expanded its own fiefdom.
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Bolton acted quickly to develop his fiefdom inside the White House, purging the National Security Council's staff of appointees from his predecessor, Gen.
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He behaves now as he always has -- as if he's the CEO of his own little fiefdom, and he need answer to nobody.
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Strong public universities are a great benefit to American life and we shouldn't let them become a fiefdom or adversary of any political party.
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First Lady Rosario Murillo has become a key spokeswoman for Ortega's government, and critics have accused the couple of running Nicaragua like a personal fiefdom.
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ILLINOIS Republicans should have paid closer attention to the state's third district, a Democratic fiefdom that includes a part of Chicago and its southwestern suburbs.
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Carinthia was the fiefdom of Joerg Haider, who first led the Freedom Party (FPO) to mainstream success and died in a car crash in 2008.
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Together, Mr. Spota, Mr. McPartland and Chief Burke controlled what amounted to a law-enforcement fiefdom in the eastern half of Long Island, prosecutors said.
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Moreover, by forming a shareholder coalition with Japan's Kowa Group, he has been accused, not least by Corfo, of running SQM as a private fiefdom.
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Any honest observer has to ask whether the truth about Clinton's corporate fiefdom, cynically masked with the trappings of a charity, should sink her presidential ambitions.
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But, by the way, I can totally see him being hired by an Amazon or someone to go run a fiefdom if he wants to. Huh.
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Say, for instance, you own a small European fiefdom and can't decide which of your many châteaux you are going to gift to your godchild's au pair.
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"If the army starts to look like an Aoun fiefdom it becomes harder for Western donors to maintain support for the Lebanese Armed Forces," the diplomat said.
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The district is a stronghold of The Republicans and the fiefdom of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and there are also 3,000 paying members of the Socialist party.
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Orlando is a Disney fiefdom, where a castle is nothing special, and so, if you spy a chance to make your place stand out, you grab it.
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But to the conservative conspiracy media, it was a key piece of evidence that Obama was turning the federal government into (implicitly) a Third World African fiefdom.
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Among the interesting pieces of trivia to emerge from the piece: Essentially, each terminal at JFK is its own little fiefdom with separate operations, management and employees.
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The mosque was named after Nuruddin al Zanki, a noble who fought the early crusaders from a fiefdom that covered territory in modern-day Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
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Money could also be used to settle tensions within the royal family by allowing each senior prince to be given their own vast and essentially autonomous bureaucratic fiefdom.
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How a much power is given to this second in command in Kalanick's fiefdom will be closely examined by investors who are hoping to see real internal changes.
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Then he united his fiefdom physically, bringing disparate Yahoo properties like Tumblr and Yahoo News under one roof in the storied Wanamaker Building in New York's Greenwich Village.
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The mosque is named after Nuruddin al‑Zanki, a noble who fought the early crusades from a fiefdom that covered territory in modern-day Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
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The mosque was named after Nuruddin al-Zanki, a noble who fought the early Crusaders from a fiefdom that covered territory in modern-day Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
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The mosque was named after Nuruddin al-Zanki, a noble who fought the early crusaders from a fiefdom that covered territory in modern-day Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
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The MQM was involved in bloody factional battles in the 1990s and 2000s and was accused by opponents of running the city like a mafia fiefdom, allegations it denied.
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The rebels and the Turkish government accuse the Kurdish militias of a campaign of ethnic cleansing of Arab-inhabited villages in a bid to carve a fiefdom in Syria's north.
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Even for a filmmaker who's essentially staked out the nexus of the uncanny and the disturbing as his personal fiefdom, Lynch has doubled down on his experimentalism and overall inscrutability.
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What should give us pause isn't the way McMahon changed Mahal's promo—although that does speak to his complete control over every aspect of his fiefdom—but that it worked.
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The "Open Internet" regulations promulgated in 2015 threaten to turn the Internet into one more fiefdom of the federal government, and thereby to strangle the impulse toward innovation and improvement.
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Jim, as drummer of Venom P Stinger and The Dirty Three, is a scene scion (or perhaps a fiefdom unto himself) of Australian post-punk Avant-post everything else royalty.
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The good news for anyone who doesn't want to see the web turned into the InterBezos personal fiefdom is that Amazon isn't much better at the other side of the equation.
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Khalifa Haftar, chief of the eastern-based forces which are attacking the city, is putting pressure on state oil firm NOC and its operations in his fiefdom, diplomats and analysts say.
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Maliki's sectarianism and the outbreak of the Arab Spring in Syria opened a window of opportunity for the Islamic State of Iraq, which evolved into ISIS, to establish its own fiefdom.
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"We are the only force of resistance to the dilution of France, its social model and identity," Le Pen said in a televised address in her northern fiefdom of Henin-Beaumont.
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For a country that desires the status of a great power and civilization rather than that of Putin's personal fiefdom, Russia requires a mission statement – an ideology offering a distinct worldview.
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Washington, D.C. is finally feeling the crisp notes of fall in the air, and establishment Republicans are whispering ghost stories about the monster that wanders the country outside their swampy fiefdom.
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A homogenous fix is the only option to ensure businesses are not overburdened from state specific regulations and to protect investors who may relocate across state lines into a new regulatory fiefdom.
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The Shakespearean allusions—Lear-like King with his three daughters; shipwrecked sailors delivered, " Tempest " style, into a tiny fiefdom—and the absence of any modern technology contribute to the novel's timeless languor.
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The founders, Jordan Kunzika and brothers Brian Gerrard and Justin Gerrard, do acknowledge they can't operate a totally anarchic fiefdom but are staunchly against exposing users to deep pocket-reaching legal requests.
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When it first opened in 1898, the institution was essentially a trophy case for King Leopold II, the Belgian ruler who established his own personal fiefdom in the Congo region by 1885.
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And the monarchy itself is not exactly admired: To many, the House of Saud is a very large and rich family who run the country like a fiefdom, with little interest in democracy.
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Here's everything you've forgotten about Hillary Clinton If Clinton is struggling to secure Warren's home fiefdom of Massachusetts in the Democratic in November, Trump will already be on his way to being President.
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Many believe they are trying to transform the island into their own personal fiefdom, citing attacks by the local paper, which is edited by one of their employees, against islanders who cross them.
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Rebel commanders bent on building their own fiefdom have been purged; less diehard candidates have replaced political leaders who defy their Moscow masters with an outmoded narrative of building a pan-Slavic "Novorossiya".
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But critics said he ran the company like a personal fiefdom and the media referred to "System Retzlaff", which included a tight circle of advisers and a plum job for the CEO's son.
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Yet, the Fed keeps insisting and has enshrined as part of its own confession of faith that it ought to be "independent" as an immensely powerful fiefdom answerable only to its own theories.
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So Republicans reversed themselves: The Office of Congressional Ethics will remain independent and therefore powerful, not a silenced fiefdom of the member-controlled House Ethics Committee, as the original GOP rules package had proposed.
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Fighting was pointless and many of my comrades would still be alive today' The fiefdom of this particular group ends at a river and a crumbling concrete bridge known by locals as 'the border.
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Following are some facts about the mosque: The mosque is named after Nuruddin al‑Zanki, a noble who fought the early crusades from a fiefdom that covered territory in modern-day Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
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The government of Suharto, the Army general who had run the country like a private fiefdom since 1965, was brought down by mass street demonstrations in Java, the island where half the country's population lives.
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For more than a decade, the FLDS ran the small borderline towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona — collectively known as Short Creek, with a population somewhere between 5,103 and 10,000 — like a totalitarian fiefdom.
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Khan, who agitated with street protests until the Supreme Court took up a corruption case against Sharif, has called the family a "monarchy" and accused it of trying to turn the country into a personal fiefdom.
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Economists have found a relationship between GDP growth in an official's fiefdom and subsequent promotion, but it is difficult to know how accurate the GDP figures are (a question that haunts anyone following the Chinese economy).
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In a series of CGT publicity stunts, energy workers cut power to the town hall of Tulle, Hollande's political fiefdom, and switched more than a million homes in the Paris area to low-cost power supply.
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Two weeks from a primary election organized by his party, Les Republicains (The Republicans), the man who was president from 2007 to 2012 held a political meeting overnight in his conservative fiefdom of Neuilly, west of Paris.
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"From the very beginning, Scott Pruitt has acted as if the E.P.A. is his own personal fiefdom," Representative John Sarbanes, Democrat of Maryland, who sits on the House committee that oversees the agency, said in a statement.
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In 2011, Chechnya's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, who rules the republic as his own private fiefdom but remains unquestionably loyal to Russia's President Vladimir Putin, showed off the Grozny-City complex at his extravagant thirty-fifth-birthday party.
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The case was well into play when Duterte was still comfortably ensconced in his Davao fiefdom down in Mindinao, and coming close to its end when "The Punisher" was only just beginning to register in the national consciousness.
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They say they have been framed for the brutal murder in Nadia on February 28th of Sudhin Som, a youth leader from the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), a rival party that runs West Bengal like a fiefdom.
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If your online tribe leans feminist, then you probably follow people who have already condemned this bit of incel-ebration, while the reverse will be true for comics superfans who seek to protect their fiefdom from SJW sniping.
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He trailed Djokovic by a massive 8,035 points after that sizzling June day in Paris when the Serb not only won the French Open final but also seemed to be turning men's tennis into his own personal fiefdom.
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Hispanic conservatives were also concerned that Korn appeared to be trying to create her own little "fiefdom," a way for her to decide which Latinos get to engage with the administration and which are on the outside looking in.
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"I could go and buy one of the islands in the Bahamas and, uh, turn it into my personal fiefdom," he told reporters in 211 as they observed him taking delivery of a $2100 million McLaren F2112 sports car.
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"We're told the left does not stand a chance, but nothing's set in stone," Valls said to applause from supporters in his fiefdom of Evry, the gritty southern suburb of Paris where he was mayor for over a decade.
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Vermont has long been treated like Sanders' personal fiefdom in presidential politics — he beat Hillary Clinton there in a whopping 86%-14% result, keeping her below the 15% threshold needed to win any of the state's handful of delegates.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - South America soccer was run as a fiefdom by a few leading officials for personal gain before they were brought to account by U.S. law enforcement, the head of the regional governing body CONMEBOL said on Wednesday.
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"The Tata group is no one's personal fiefdom: it does not belong to any individual, not to the trustees of the Tata trusts, not to the Tata Sons directors, and not to the directors of the operating companies," he said.
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Lisa Vanderpump, herself the mother figure in her own (amazing, wonderful) reality fiefdom, was the one to pass along something Mohamed Hadid, the children's father, said "He just said no, that she's the only one that has it," Lisa said.
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"If these protests lead to the opposition starting to work together more effectively, that will at least be a first step in providing some sort of check on Orban's ability to run the country as a sort of fiefdom," TS Lombard's Fraser said.
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It can't just be a motley collection of incompetent grifters, each misruling their own little fiefdom, trying to stay in their boss's good graces, succeeding less through wits than a congenital lack of shame and the unstinting institutional support of GOP donors.
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"As the personal fiefdom of Defendant Stefan Krause, Defendant Canoo (formerly known as Evelozcity) terminated Plaintiff Christina Krause as an extension of Defendant Krause's estrangement from and infidelity to his wife of seven years," her lawyers write in the introduction to the complaint.
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His fiefdom––a South Central clothing store for his brand So Way Out, Mid-City smoke shop One Stop, an as-yet-unopened juice bar, and some real estate––is considerably smaller than that of, say, the late Beverly Hills industrialist Norton Simon.
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To capitalize on what we can only assume is their vast store of social savvy, WIRED asked the guys, who also wrote/directed/star in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, for their hottest tips on making the Internet your own personal fiefdom.
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I think about them, I sample other games in the same genre, and I try to create the best mental map of the little genre or mechanical fiefdom that I can before I write out my column or review or what have you.
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In one story, a tyrant's daughter is banished from her father's fiefdom after his remarriage; in another, a couple's experiment produces visitations from a son they never had; in a reimagining of Red Riding Hood, a grandmotherly figure orders a red cape online.
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Kremlin critics saw the report as further evidence that Moscow allows authorities in Chechnya to run the region - which has been consumed by two wars since the Soviet collapse - as a feudal fiefdom in exchange for separatist and radical Islamist sentiment being brutally suppressed.
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He undergoes a torturous hazing period wherein frat brothers proudly compare their abuses to that of Guantánamo guards, but when a more grave tragedy hits the group, the upperclassmen have to focus less on brotherhood and more on protecting the booze-soaked fiefdom they've established for themselves.
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Kremlin critics regarded the report as further evidence that Moscow allows authorities in Chechnya to run the region - which has been consumed by two wars since the 1991 disintegration of the Soviet Union - as a feudal fiefdom in exchange for keeping separatist and radical Islamist sentiment suppressed.
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The academics say that Trump's instincts — like those of strongmen such as Mobutu Sese Seko and Putin — is to see the state as a personal fiefdom and a vehicle for dispensing favors to family and political allies, rather than as something that needs to follow neutral rules.
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"In certain jurisdictions there is a feeling by sheriffs that this is my fiefdom — I am in charge, my way or the highway," said Sarah Geraghty, a lawyer at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, which has filed lawsuits against a number of sheriffs.
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The nearest air assets were French Mirage jets — France has an even larger counterterrorism presence in West Africa, its former colonial fiefdom, than the US. It took half an hour for French jets to get ready, and another half-hour for them to arrive on scene.
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"When we took charge of CONMEBOL, we realized we were entering a structure without any organization, something I would describe as a personal fiefdom or even a personal business ... that worked according to the whims of certain people and was never held accountable," Dominguez told a news conference.
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Chandra has no experience in turning around failing businesses, let alone in any industry outside IT. Worse, he must ensure his old TCS fiefdom, whose day-to-day management he will now give up, continues to generate enough profits to prop up the duds as they are dealt with.
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Uzbekistan's longtime dictator, Islam Karimov, was actually elected in 1991 — but consolidated power and ran the Uzbek government as a fiefdom: his daughter Gulnara was reportedly able to extract $114 million in bribes from a single telecom company in exchange for granting them licenses to operate in the country.
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More recently, there is evidence they have also attracted recruits from further away, including Mozambique, South Africa, and even the U.K. If this continues, the ADF's fiefdom in Eastern Congo could become as dangerous as ungoverned spaces in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Mali and Afghanistan, if it isn't already.
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In general the U.S. system of everybody being super independent and each department head having their own little fiefdom and only presenting finished work versus the Chinese system where everyone wants to ask the director every single little detail — I think there's probably a middle ground to be found somewhere there.
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The museum, full of historic artefacts and stuffed wildlife, was often criticized for ignoring the brutalities of a time when millions of Congolese are estimated to have died when Congo was first a personal fiefdom of King Leopold II in the late 19th century before becoming a colony of the Belgian state.
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Ben Ammar and Maerov, who've served on the board since TWC's launch in 2005, assert that Weinstein for years bullied and insulted employees, directors, and his brother, squandered outside investors' money, and ran TWC not to earn profits for its outside investors, but as a personal fiefdom that bestowed celebrity and power.
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Belgium's rule in what is now Democratic Republic of Congo was particularly cruel, especially between 1885 and 1908, when the country, then called the Congo Free State, was run as a private fiefdom by King Leopold II. Slave labor to develop vast rubber reserves, maiming and torture cost the lives of between 10 million and 15 million people.
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This takes us full circle, to the idea that maybe it is time for America to wash its hands of this problem and move on, with the goal of ensuring that China can't overthrow the international order or turn most parts of Asia into its own personal fiefdom — a problem infinitely more challenging than an impoverished nation with an economy one-third the size of Rhode Island's.
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When I was reading the book, it wasn't until Elena was well into her teens that I finally put together that oh, okay, Don Achille is a local crime boss who got rich off the black market during World War II. He runs the neighborhood like it's his private fiefdom, and he is ultimately killed by another local crime family who want to get rid of the competition.
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In the Bureau's early years, founding Director J. Edgar Hoover ran the place like a personal fiefdom, targeting everyone from Communist sportswriters to (at Robert F. Kennedy's request) Martin Luther King, Jr. According to Sanford J. Ungar, director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University and author of the 1975 book FBI: An Uncensored Look Behind the Walls, Lyndon Johnson's administration clashed with Hoover over his unwillingness to aggressively pursue civil-rights crimes in the South.
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