And other officials have created their own foreign policy fiefdoms.
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Ford has traditionally operated with lots of corporate chimneys, or fiefdoms.
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Ethnic militias have divided the country into a patchwork of fiefdoms.
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The site's subreddits serve as fiefdoms organized around a specific interest.
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You've had these 100 days dominated by these various fiefdoms fighting.
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This is not a united city, because it is separate fiefdoms.
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Managers are supposed to be infallible leaders of their own little fiefdoms.
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On the island, a U.S. territory, towns function almost as small fiefdoms.
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College football is a patchwork of psychic fiefdoms beyond geography or even logic.
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The once stable country is broken into fiefdoms ruled by rebels and warlords.
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Under Craddick's leadership, the Texas legislature began carving historical congressional districts into new fiefdoms.
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Go deeper: U.S. mulls export controls on advanced technology The future of U.S.-China tech fiefdoms
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Gaddafi's fall in 2011 brought chaos that splintered the North African country into rival armed fiefdoms.
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Alhamadee is convinced these sectarian and ethnic fiefdoms can only survive in the chaos of war.
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"They operate like fiefdoms," said Dionna King, New York Policy Manager of the Drug Policy Alliance.
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But as quickly as the statement was read, each of the delegations split into their respective fiefdoms.
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For now, Syria remains ungovernable and splintered into fiefdoms run by regional players with their own interests.
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Whether intentional or not, these imbalances can disempower other disciplines, create fiefdoms, and erode trust between colleagues.
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This summer, representatives from 27 of these would-be fiefdoms gathered for a summit in Dunwoody, Georgia.
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The fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 brought chaos that splintered Libya into rival armed fiefdoms.
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What constitutes genuine Islamic State action outside its Middle East fiefdoms is a question bedevilling security agencies worldwide.
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That is, a country effectively divided into rival fiefdoms, with efforts intermittently made to enforce a ceasefire agreement.
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It's a variety of competing fiefdoms and it's only compounded by the number of different games being played.
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The war had divided Syria into little fiefdoms where each armed group strove to install its own bureaucracy.
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He could have a job there for as long as he wanted, doing land surveys on local fiefdoms.
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Employees say it resulted in the creation of fiefdoms and rivalries that proved difficult for any CEO to control.
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The three services are each reasonably competent, say security experts; the trouble is that they function as separate fiefdoms.
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But for now, the country remains a patchwork of fiefdoms awash with weapons and plummeting towards a humanitarian disaster.
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If they win, it will be fiefdoms and the same families passing power from one generation to the next.
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Instead, it has a patchwork of grids, operated as closed-off regional and local fiefdoms with little trade among them.
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It risks further splitting the city into a collection of parochial political and business fiefdoms rallied by meaningless promotional slogans.
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Outside Bangui, CAR is but a collection of fiefdoms controlled by factions who pay lip service to the peace process.
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Interviews with one dozen present and former Deutsche staff and managers describe an organization still dominated by fiefdoms and bureaucracy.
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In the old days, there were wrestling fiefdoms all over the country, each with its own little lord in charge.
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"Males acted like governors of fiefdoms, structuring how all mountain lions across the landscape interacted with each other," he said.
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He has promised an end to the mayhem of warring factions and fiefdoms that has followed the ouster of Col.
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Then, Jon's true namesake Aegon Targaryen decided to bring each and every one of those fiefdoms to heel under his rule.
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This behavior was abetted by an industry that allowed these men to see themselves as indispensable within their own personal fiefdoms.
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Your campaign will need a team that works as an actual team, unlike the fiefdoms of the White House's early months.
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They cross party lines in state legislatures to ensure ballot access laws are virtually impregnable, thwarting outsiders from challenging their fiefdoms.
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Sunni sovereigns condemned as blasphemous, by both Iranian-Shi'a and Sunni Islamists, are aware that their fiefdoms have been targeted for destruction.
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These shadowy negotiations carve up Afghanistan and its resources into fiefdoms and alliances as various actors balance and bandwagon against one another.
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The sport's first golden age, during the 1940s and 1950s, was defined by its territories, small fiefdoms organized by strict geographic lines.
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The fake accounts went on to become administrators of some groups, lording over their internet fiefdoms and ridiculing anyone who disagreed with them.
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But some experts worry Buffett's enthusiasm for speeding Colombia's development is no match for entrenched corruption in rural areas run like political fiefdoms.
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They are more interested in creating independent fiefdoms, from which to launch their leadership bids after Mr Netanyahu's departure from the political scene.
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The House is essentially comprised of 435 small businessmen and women, all of whom view themselves as the boss of their own fiefdoms.
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But if you spent time in magazines decades previous, especially at a place like Hearst, also Conde, magazine editors run their own fiefdoms.
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Mafia investigations in northern Italy show how criminal groups have spread from their traditional southern fiefdoms and infiltrated legitimate businesses in the wealthier north.
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At the same time, Clegg tried to make the case that the internet need not and should not turn into a collection of fiefdoms.
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They established little fiefdoms in the hills and mountains of NorCal, where tales of police raids, buried fortunes, and bizarre disappearances were all too common.
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Managers had created their own fiefdoms, one senior trader said, adding that Cryan was limited in what he could do because the inefficiencies were profound.
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America's elections are a patchwork of fiefdoms, many run by secretaries of state (many of whom are Republicans), some directly run by state parties themselves.
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This will further weaken the Russian Federation and its oligarchs, who rely almost completely on oil and gas exports to finance themselves and their fiefdoms.
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The oligarchs of the Putin era, on the other hand, are themselves assets of the state, administering business fiefdoms that also happen to pay handsomely.
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The landlords of these digital fiefdoms are, more often than not, free to make their own rules, and enforce them as capriciously as suits them.
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Some of the women I met could run a corporation with the combination smarts, hustle, and mental agility with which they ran their fiefdoms of Fritos.
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For much of the seven-year conflict safe, rapid travel was unthinkable as fighting cut major routes and splintered the country into dozens of warring fiefdoms.
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And with so many fiefdoms that garner little to no ethical oversight, it's especially easy for grifters, kooks, and other unqualified individuals to win local elections.
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Prices even grew in the post-internet environment, as a handful of big publishers (like Elsevier) bought up more and more journals, creating mini knowledge fiefdoms.
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"It's the old royal fiefdoms that are not in the Al Salman branch of the royal family that are now being purged," said a Western analyst.
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That's because those myriad products, like many things at the company, had operated as fiefdoms — initiatives from teams often working in isolation and delivering inconsistent experiences.
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A short 45 years ago, the huddle of fretful fiefdoms now known as the United Arab Emirates were a British military protectorate known as the Trucial States.
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But other land claims involve plots snatched by organized crime networks and guerrilla groups, bent on maintaining control of their fiefdoms, cocaine-smuggling routes and illegal mining.
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"It's basically most of the population living under a semi-functional authoritarian regime run by Assad, plus a bunch of peripheral fiefdoms run by militias," said Lund.
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The four-year civil war has split the country into a patchwork of fiefdoms, created Africa's biggest refugee crisis in two decades and led to ethnic cleansing.
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If successful, some worry this bill could carve up the world's genetic resources into commercial fiefdoms, forcing scientists to perform basic research under constant threat of legal action.
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By and large, Republicans in local and national office were certainly no more (and often less) corrupt than the Democrats then controlling big-city machines and Southern fiefdoms.
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No one wants Syria to become a patchwork of fiefdoms, propped up by the military force of various international actors, be they from the region or further afield.
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Islamic State's fiefdoms in Syria and Iraq have been largely dismantled in recent years by offensives launched by Damascus and Baghdad with the backing of various foreign coalitions.
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In other cases, the work is a result of shortcuts and fiefdoms, and an inability for the IT folks to get the funding they needed, these employees said.
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Which means traditional pay TV services, which have operated regional fiefdoms, with very limited competition, for years, are now going to have to contend with a national rival.
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The Greg Berlantis and Dick Wolfs and Kenya Barrises of the world may have their fiefdoms, but no one has created a kingdom quiet like Rhimes and her Shondaland.
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Extrapolated over time, this principle could fracture the internet as we know it into fiefdoms and walled gardens, where only the rich get access to certain information and services.
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Now, as ISIS continues to lose ground in both its former fiefdoms in Northern Iraq and Syria and on the front pages of global newspapers, the hotel is quieter.
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In addition to the individual member federations, you've got the confederations, the executive committee and all the other fiefdoms that make FIFA so chaotic and resistant to outside forces.
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Like many small business owners, they were forced to pay a weekly "war tax" to Mara Salvatrucha, MS-13, one of two brutal gangs with fiefdoms across the country.
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Perhaps it's unsurprising, given his new endeavor, but he says those companies, with their tangle of properties, most of which are run like independent fiefdoms, should most definitely be dismantled.
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At AOL, HuffPo was a dominant property; in a combined Yahoo/AOL, it wouldn't have the same stature, and there will be a new set of fiefdoms and power structures.
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If that financial motivation goes away, the real estate market may turn into a collection of well-capitalized tech fiefdoms that hoard information, allowing few consumers to access all of it.
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Since Gadhafi's overthrow and his summary execution at the side of a road in October 2011, the country has dissolved into city states, tribal and militia fiefdoms that ISIS is exploiting.
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Co-founder Bill Gates famously held product reviews where he'd kill years of work in a single meeting, and this encouraged these fiefdoms even more as teams battled for Gates' attention.
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If you wonder why our society seems to be fragmenting into so many different little fiefdoms, well, I'm not pretending that this is the only reason — but it's a big one.
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This is about the time pundit flacks begin invoking the shibboleth of "transparency," an impossibility given that the landscape has degenerated into warring fiefdoms that resemble "Game of Thrones," dragons included.
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While many of Penguin's imprints have been preserved, multiple former Penguin employees and agents told me that the company's unique corporate culture—a confederacy of personality-driven fiefdoms—no longer exists.
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If its growth continues unchecked, Dark Matter could eclipse discoverable information, which would not only destroy Google's Search, it could take the world's information and lock it away inside private internet fiefdoms.
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The oil-rich country has splintered in recent years into local fiefdoms, with competing parliaments and governments set up in the east and west of the country backed by rival armed alliances.
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But to avert this dialogue of the profoundly deaf, and to give learning about religion a better name, the champions of faith may have to dilute some of their own educational fiefdoms.
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The Senate and House have dozens of committees with their own separate policy fiefdoms — part of their mandates involve looking into problems in the executive branch related to their areas of expertise.
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It is also likely that since many state and local governments are now basically one-party fiefdoms, there's not much of the public partisan conflict that also tends to reduce trust in government.
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The county committees are, a New Jersey lobbyist once told The Wall Street Journal, run as "individual fiefdoms," with each committee chair a little boss whose favor anyone seeking office needs to win.
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If you find creativity hurt by remote work, it's time to question what fiefdoms have been created across your business that limit knowledge sharing and why employees might not feel safe sharing ideas.
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"China's ministries are giant, nationwide silos and fiefdoms that never talk to one another," Cliff Tan, east Asian head of global markets research at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, said in a note.
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But unless outright rapacious, exclusionary, and deeply predatory governance is mitigated, the root causes of the insurgency will remain unaddressed and the state-building project will have disappeared into fiefdoms and lasting conflict.
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Sicily's "Cosa Nostra" mafia has weakened in recent years but Monday's arrests unveil the latest example of criminal groups spreading their tentacles from traditional southern fiefdoms to infiltrate businesses in the wealthier north.
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Most of these far-right nationalists, led by Le Pen and Farage, want plainly and simply to break it up, returning the continent to the day of fragmented and competing fiefdoms, bickering and disaster.
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Between sessions, Sloterdijk, who has long, straw-colored hair and a straggly mustache, prowled among luminaries of the various disciplines he has strayed into, like a Frankish king greeting lords of recently subdued fiefdoms.
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Classification is determined by "a series of bureaucratic fiefdoms" operating under "a hodgepodge of laws, regulations and directives," J. William Leonard, then the head of the federal office that oversees classification, said in 2003.
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There are further fiefdoms around the oil-rich nation -- Libya has been reduced by the ongoing violence to an economic slump, and people queue for hours outside banks for the most basic of services.
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Control over these states, which also include Special Regions - semi-autonomous fiefdoms with their own administrations and armies - is key for Suu Kyi, who has made a ceasefire with ethnic armed groups her top priority.
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The dynamics at play, per multiple sources inside the White House and close to the president:The new regime: Under White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, there won't be much tolerance for separate press fiefdoms.
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While some actors may fall in line with a formal negotiated agreement, many powerful actors will defect from it, maintaining sovereignty and immunity within their own fiefdoms through a combination of economic incentives and violence.
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Of course, "the party" is less a monolith than an unruly collection of fiefdoms, none necessarily powerful enough to make candidates or voters come to heel through sheer force of will or strongly-worded-statement.
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Preparations for the event were blighted by a corruption scandal that led to the arrest of several top officials in 2014, laying bare the spread of mafia groups from their southern fiefdoms to the wealthier north.
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The Trump team reflects a consistent preference for judging people based on personal loyalty rather than suitability for the job at hand, leading naturally to a structure of interlocking fiefdoms rather than a coherent, competent team.
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But Assad controls only a fraction of the deeply fractured country's territory, including Syria's five major cities; rival armed groups — ISIS, multiple terror groups, nationalists, Kurds — hold their own fiefdoms in much of the rural areas.
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"Both the increasing lack of managerial expertise and the fragmentation of the hierarchy inside PDVSA into fiefdoms would make it really difficult," said Francisco Monaldi, an expert on Venezuela's oil industry at the Baker Institute in Houston.
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Former Benghazi residents are not the only ones driven from their homes: fighting turned the six million strong country into a patchwork of rival fiefdoms after Muammar Gaddafi was ousted by a pro-democracy uprising in 2011.
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Syria now faces a situation that could resemble neighboring Lebanon at several stages of its 1975-90 civil war, when it was carved into fiefdoms by competing militias, with long lulls in fighting punctuated by violent cataclysms.
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The European Central Bank, which supervises Deutsche, is concerned about such fiefdoms as well as the group's financial prospects and is urging an acceleration of Cryan's clean-up, according to one person with knowledge of the matter.
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Libya is controlled by a patchwork of armed groups that have built local fiefdoms which have vied for power since Libya's 2011 uprising, and two governments - one in the east and another in Tripoli - are competing for control.
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It beggars belief that anyone thinks consumers would benefit by forcing technology companies into their own silos, ensuring that the most powerful sources of competition for each other are confined to their own fiefdoms by order of law.
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It is amazing how it really is often difficult for new people to break in because they don't know anybody, they don't know how it operates, people tend to want to control their little fiefdoms that they have.
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In seizing vast executive powers, as in this weekend's sweeping arrest of royals and officials, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is undoing the last of those checks and balances — princely economic and security fiefdoms that acted as countervailing influences.
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Since his father's downfall, Saif has been held in Zintan, a mountainous western region, by one of the factions that began contending for power after Gaddafi was killed in 2011 and have now split the country into warring fiefdoms.
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The command-and-control structure of the corporation, where the CEO is boss, doesn't exist in our separation of powers, where the president has to work with or find ways to work through many other actors with fiefdoms of their own.
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The U.S. and China often seem to be in a cutthroat technological race, but their rivalry may ultimately produce two geographically separate commercial fiefdoms where they rarely if ever cross swords directly, according to Beijing venture capitalist Kai-Fu Lee.
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As part of this drive, it set an internal rule that no member can hold elected office for more than two terms, an effort to prevent politicians from establishing fiefdoms and to give the party a constant supply of fresh energy.
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The proposal builds on efforts to knit together a once faction-ridden company and mark an end to what Enders described in the past as "fiefdoms" inside the group, whose products range from jetliners to satellites and choppers to fighter jets.
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Kim Jong-un had to sort of reclaim these fiefdoms and the stuff the Kim Jong-il had outsourced, and that's where we say he's consolidating power, which is basically reclaiming stuff that his father had given up control of.
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The priority was to keep the deal secret from the media, a challenge given that Time Warner has large fiefdoms in the industry, with HBO in New York, Turner Broadcasting and its news unit CNN in Atlanta and Warner Bros in Los Angeles.
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According to a former justice department attorney who lives in El Salvador and who has studied the gangs, this loose affiliation has enabled Mara 216 to spread into smaller, more remote villages where gang leaders set up what amount to modern-day fiefdoms.
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Related: Why Fixing Ferguson Requires Toppling the Many Fiefdoms of St. Louis County Reforming police practices like those for which Ferguson was criticized is "no cheap or easy task," said Kristen Clarke, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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Every growing corporation reaches a point at which many of its internal factions and fiefdoms become, from an incentive perspective, parasites more interested in perpetuating themselves on the corpus of their host, rather than part of a single entity with a coherent vision and policy.
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The potency of your own presidency is ridiculed when thugs and barbaric criminals take it upon themselves to establish lawless fiefdoms, usurping the law and order on which this republic was built and upon which its continued existence depends, as they kill innocent lives.
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Morris's medieval ideal could readily be turned in a right-leaning direction; G. K. Chesterton's " The Napoleon of Notting Hill ," in which a future London returns to fiefdoms from an imaginary Middle Ages, is only the sunniest and most poetic of these reactionary idealizations.
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Acquiescence signals a willingness to credit arguments that an elite federal institution such as the Secret Service is unreliable, that armed contractors acting somewhat under the color of state law are acceptable, and that self-funded bureaucratic fiefdoms insulated from congressional control are anything but constitutionally offensive.
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"Largely gone are the warring factions that dominated life at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the first year of Trump's term, replaced by solo players — many with personal connections to the president and their own miniature fiefdoms — laboring to do their jobs and survive," the Post observes.
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Queen Sansa and King Tyrion manage the reconstruction of King's Landing and a transition to some kind of quasi-democratic political system that respects the autonomy of the North and other historically independent fiefdoms — the decentralized Iroquois Confederacy seems like a good model for the Seven Kingdoms.
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The backyard lords of Westeros will be able to live in peace in their small fiefdoms, there will be no superior ruler, and knowing that a mad Mother of Dragons lives just across the Narrow Sea will deter people from making any ill-advised power grabs.
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In the Choice Act, Congress is asserting itself at last to clarify that regulatory agencies are derivative bodies accountable to the Congress, that they cannot be sovereign fiefdoms — not even the Dictatorship of the CFPB, and not even the money-printing activities of the Federal Reserve.
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I honestly think the best case scenario now is that the Taliban control the southern and eastern areas, and the Northern Alliance control the other areas, with a whole bunch of warlords having individual fiefdoms, and each side is happy with what they've got and don't push for more.
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It is true that part of Sanders's success has come via his ability to galvanize the members of the Democratic constituency who have been served the least effectively by the institutional Democratic establishment—those consultants and fundraisers and the party apparatchiks ruling little fiefdoms in consequence-free perpetuity.
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Maybe there were smaller fiefdoms with other third-party apps like popular music, Stitcher or Overcast or whatever, but largely, when we think about the people who are trying to make money or build companies in the podcast space, they have to think about Apple when it comes to distribution.
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The show's fictional Ukraine, still led by Holoborodko, had splintered into two dozen independent fiefdoms—a metaphor, perhaps, for the separatist territories in the Donbass, or maybe a reference to the rhetoric of many of Ukraine's post-independence politicians, Poroshenko included, who had pitted the country's Ukrainian speakers against its Russian ones.
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Changes to the corporate structure mean that Quixey is now working with different people (Alibaba's Joe Tsai, for example, is no longer directly involved), and quarterly road-maps are soon supplemented by weekly deliverables (sometimes sent directly to Quixey engineers from Alibaba engineers, as the latter company's various fiefdoms become more pronounced).
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Soccer's current crush of games, far exceeding what any functional man or woman can reasonably consume, doesn't preclude the creation of more games, and if left up to dubiously elected presidents of the sport's many competing fiefdoms—as it apparently is—soccer won't stop growing until it consumes every last day on the calendar, insofar as it hasn't already.
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While climate wonks are forever coming up with grand schemes meant to change everything at once (see: carbon tax), the truth is that American politics is a thicket of local civic and political groups — homeowners associations, trade groups, town and county boards and governments — with overlapping fiefdoms, each capable of serving as sand in the gears.
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Related: Why Fixing Ferguson Requires Toppling the Many Fiefdoms of St. Louis County The split has been viewed as an indicator of the degree to which racial tensions still exist in the city, but the city council members are doing their best to play down the situation, suggesting the dispute is more about politics than race.
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"Whether he turns out to be a true dictator or reformer, consolidation of power remains a prerequisite for a national and Party leader to succeed," He said, explaining that the post-Mao system of dividing power among several members of the Politburo Standing Committee -- China's top decision-making body -- had only meant fiefdoms and factional struggles instead of checks and balances.
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However, lacking a coherent narrative of European racial dominance of the Middle Ages, many eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholars took it upon themselves to invent new hierarchies of race among Europe and the world, leading to the modern concept of European whiteness as a blanket racial term that synthesized the "grandeur" of the Greek and Roman states with the "barbarism" of medieval fiefdoms.
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Turning a sprawling network into 'one agency with many brains' Juhl promoted former mPlatform CEOs Brian Gleason and Colin Barlow to GroupM global chief commercial officer and president of the new tech services division, respectively — moves, according to the former media executive source, that show GroupM is trying to operate as one agency rather than multiple brands that can turn into fiefdoms.
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Of course, Linklater will be nearly 80 by the time it's done, most movie theaters will probably be closed by then, and the corporations in our country will likely have splintered into independent fiefdoms where we pledge fealty to Amazon in trade for our allotted water rations so none of us will have the means to trifle with old-world luxuries like film anyway, but whatever.
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Related: Why Fixing Ferguson Requires Toppling the Many Fiefdoms of St. Louis County Ferguson's City Hall reached overflow capacity this week as dozens of the St. Louis suburb's citizens gathered to hear the City Council discuss two controversial topics that encapsulate the community's lingering concerns about race and policing in the aftermath of the protests that followed the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
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Gorka's resignation letter, quoted by Hemingway, tells the president he can better serve his America First agenda from the outside: "[I]t is clear to me that forces that do not support the MAGA promise are – for now – ascendant within the White House..." His resignation is both a fallout from Steve Bannon's departure, and a sign of Chief of Staff John Kelly's tightening control of the White House's sprawling, unaccountable fiefdoms.
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The incentives for local leaders to cover up bad news (lest they be fingered in the next round of anti-corruption crackdowns) is a victory of ephemeral parochial concerns over effective management of a crisis; the ex post firing of local government and party leaders is solely a reactive exercise that does nothing to put proper mechanisms in place; the breathless construction of prefabricated hospitals recalls elements of Maoist mass campaigns (and their ineffectiveness); and Xi's recent efforts to place "his people" in positions of managing the crisis undermines his attempts to curtail factionalism and personal fiefdoms in China.
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