(1) It is not, one presumes, the view of the French generals who currently treat the people and nation of Cote d' Ivoire as their fief .(2) King John made up by surrendering his kingdom as a feudal fief to the pope.(3) It doesn't take a genius to understand why Bremmer and his boss are so reluctant to employ the universal concept of democracy in their occupied fief .(4) I love my people, the people of my fief, the fief that has been mine since the death of my mother.(5) The push for freedom that began in Iraq is steadily wresting Lebanon away from its status as a fief of Damascus.(6) In other words, says Horowitz, ‘a private fief for the radical left.’(7) Prancor, too, was in the Wraston Basin, but it wasn't so much a mining fief as it was a lumber-oriented fief .(8) Almost 200 years ago, one of the many rebellions in central China was the product of unmarried men who formed into a 100,000-strong gang that established a fief which lasted for 17 years before it was quashed by the imperial army.(9) In 1525 Albrecht of Hohenzollern, Grand Master of the Order, accepted Lutheranism, secularized the state, and created a duchy as a fief of Poland.(10) Before the Nehru family made Amethi their fief , there were no roads, power, schools and industries there.(11) The fief was usually land necessary to maintain the vassal, but oftentimes the vassal would receive regular payments of money from a lord.(12) That way, I would retain control of my own fief , and still have the man I loved.(13) I am the custodian of the faith and savings of 30,000 members and I can't turn it into a fief .(14) Throughout 1171, Strongbow sent emissaries to Henry, and eventually went to Henry in person, offering to surrender his lands in return for their fief as a vassal of the king.(15) It appears unlikely that Tung will soon name a successor since Yeoh has until October before abandoning his fief for exile.(16) Otherwise Leinster and Meath became fiefs , held of the English crown by precisely defined knight service by Strongbow and Hugh de Lacy respectively.
