New Orleans now has one elected tax assessor instead of seven, each overseeing his own fief.
If a province of Serbia can decide its own future, he argues, why not his fief?
Ismail Khan, the ruler of Herat, has expressed concern over the fiery suicides in his fief.
Energetic slum clearance and background gun battles turned his marginal constituency into a personal fief.
And at least half-a-dozen places, including the senior Lebed's fief of Krasnoyarsk, are imposing price controls.
Each of these princes has his own fief with an extensive network of power and patronage.
The days when America can reasonably claim the Internet as its fief are running out.
As a result, KDP supporters smashed the offices of opposition groups in Erbil, the KDP's biggest fief.
His Sandinista Front is a personal fief from which he has expelled those who challenge his leadership.
The outspoken Druze leader, Walid Jumblatt, has lost half his fief to his chief rival, Talal Arslan.
The Rwandans accused the Ugandan commander, Brigadier James Kazini, of running the city as his personal fief.
But apart from that, Sheffield has been an unshakeably Labour fief since 1931.
He has turned Chechnya into his fief, more Russia's ally than its subject.
At Vavuniya, it has corralled 60, 000 Tamils, inhabitants of the Tigers' former fief, into makeshift camps, ringed by razor-wire.
It follows recent media reports suggesting Michael Beaumont might be open to the sale of the Fief of Sark in the future.
On public demand, it is plotting a renewed campaign against the Pakistani Taliban's supreme leader, Baitullah Mehsud, who has his fief there.
It will also surely be harder for the Murdochs, only a minority shareholder in News Corp, to run the company as a family fief.
With a forbidding fief in the never-conquered tribal area of South Waziristan, a well-armed militia and suicide-bombers at his disposal, he is a daunting foe.
The party has for decades been a fief of the Gandhi family, and after the assassination of Rajiv started falling apart under two successive non-family chiefs.
From 1997 until 2004, the department had operated as a Treasury fief, run by a succession of ministers whose primary political loyalty was to Gordon Brown.
In the north, on the margins of their fief, there are areas where it is unclear quite who is in control: the army or the rebels.
Sark's system of government dates back to 1565 when Queen Elizabeth I granted "letters patent" to the first seigneur to hold the island as a "royal fief".
Galmudug is another, smaller zone that has become a cohesive semi-independent fief, south of Puntland and north of the zone which the ASWJ more or less controls.
He also said it was likely the man who brought the case against the States, Seigneur of la Fief de la Fosse Richard Falle, will be one of them.
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But that action should pave the way for the debt-equity swaps with the bankers that will make Daewoo's subsidiaries healthy enough to sell, so breaking up Mr Kim's fief.
The tiny Channel Island of Sark has a unique constitutional position: part of Britain, but not the UK, it is still held as a fief on behalf of the Queen.
The boards of such firms should ask themselves whether their bosses are stars like Mr Goizueta, or tyrants like Armand Hammer, who ruled Occidental Petroleum as his fief into his 90s.
He runs the Sandinista party as a private fief.
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Its head, James Soong, is prepared for a rough fight to protect his fief and its valuable patronage and has some support in the National Assembly, which would have to approve any constitutional changes.
As it turned out, General Alexander Lebed was looking thoroughly out of place in President Vladimir Putin's Russia when he died this week in a helicopter crash in his Siberian fief of Krasnoyarsk.
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