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.
PRI, these local Indian bosses have long operated within a feudal system of power.
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After the samurai, farmers were the most privileged group in Japan's old feudal hierarchy.
"Everyone who dealt with MCI considered them feudal and schizophrenic, " says the chief of one prepaid-card service.
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.
The 1949 Communist Revolution hastened the process, as antique structures were regarded as vestiges of a feudal era.
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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.
But that would require both the two big parties to disobey their feudal leaders and to share power.
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.
He had spoken out against power brokers and feudal oligarchies subverting his party.
We're different because we're descended from those who had the courage and drive to leave feudal, excessive taxing, warmongering governments.
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.
The film's harshly critical commentary on the feudal political system is counterpointed by its equally authentic depiction of village-level democracy.
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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