Feudal Japan with samurais and ninjas, medieval castles in England from the Braveheart era.
When this stuff started out we were talking pre-feudal -- totally made up on the spot.
Something feels feudal about hoping the rich get richer so essential government services can continue.
In France, centuries of feudal privileges did not disappear at the birth of the Fifth Republic.
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Sark embraced democracy in the same year, as it saw an end to feudal practices.
If their wine is to compete, farmers can no longer afford the feudal inheritance.
Those changes did not include the abolition of the feudal roles of Seigneur and Seneschal.
During this peaceful golden age, the feudal military class focused most of its energy on scholarly pursuits and craftsmanship.
The African National Congress, now in government, naturally wishes to make maid-madam contracts less feudal.
After the samurai, farmers were the most privileged group in Japan's old feudal hierarchy.
At that time, the old barons still dominated the government, the Prime Minister a huge feudal landowner.
He had asked Mr Millin to be his personal piper: not a feudal but a military arrangement.
Even as there was little practical difference, slaves had human owners whereas feudal serfs belonged to the land.
For the poor Filipinos who support Mr Estrada, he represents a vote against this traditional and feudal order.
This stirs alarm above all in Santa Cruz, where big landholdings underpin both entrepreneurial agriculture and feudal privilege.
In effect, the chief holds all the land in trust for the tribe, as kings did in feudal Europe.
In the modern world, however, self-indulgence and feudal flim-flam corrode both the company's external image and its internal ethics.
Playing the game again also reinforces my belief that From Software really needs to make its own feudal Japanese-style game.
This makes them a threat in the eyes of feudal landlords and rural moneylenders who prey on illiterate low-caste villagers.
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Admittedly, it would leave the top titles as exclusively a feudal relic rather than sometimes a badge of actual distinction.
The principle has a name which sounds as though it was invented in pre-feudal times - which it probably was.
With The Seven Samurai and other feudal epics, Kurosawa was accused of peddling the samurai tradition as exotica for Westerners.
Historically, the samurai serving a daimyo, or feudal lord, would all wear similar armor, while here the mannequins sport different styles.
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Much of this country's trust law is based on some creaky, almost feudal, notions about the distinction between principal and income.
Not only is the gold rush over, but the app store model is in danger of turning into something more feudal.
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In feudal days, most herders looked after animals belonging either to aristocratic or to monastic masters, while raising livestock for private consumption.
Commoners were unshackled from feudal paralysis and freed to find God individually.
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Feudal and tribal peoples with insufficient property protections typically saw minimal progress.
The feudal nobles tried to suppress it, but precisely because there was no stable government in control of a huge territory, they failed.
They are a "middle caste" in northern India's rigid social hierarchy -- above the lowest untouchables but below the Brahmins and feudal landowners.
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