Fiefdoms

The existing alphabet soup of agencies and separate local fiefdoms is a dysfunctional mess. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The irony is that you're more likely to get all of the megaprojects, and fewer improvements to the roadways in your neighborhood, if you take away some element of control for project spending via local 'fiefdoms' -- like the mayor and city council of your city, etc. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"fiefdoms" - is both unwieldy and expensive, they say. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Those are the very same powerful Pentagon 'fiefdoms' that created the problem in the first place," Grassley wrote, "and the very same ones that Eisenhower warned us about 50 years ago." ❋ Winslow T. Wheeler (2010)

But this means shattering cozy fiefdoms, forcing national aviation agencies to cooperate and compelling controllers to work more efficiently—all without compromising safety. ❋ Daniel Michaels (2011)

The world of nutrition and food policy sometimes seems like a big messy jumble of competing interests, contradictory science and warring fiefdoms. ❋ Jennifer LaRue Huget (2010)

And finally, TIF districts must not be treated as separate fiefdoms somehow divorced from municipal budgetary discussions. ❋ David Orr (2011)

The freedoms of the capitalist system have won over the entire world, bar Cuba, Burma and a couple of other fiefdoms, but it's a culture that's put paid to any respect for those who can't buy it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The world has devolved into an oligarchy of corporate fiefdoms that decide where the money goes. ❋ Al Lewis (2011)

The Tester Bill surrenders decisions about our national forests to a handful of local bureaucrats and extraction-oriented corporations, thereby promoting fragmentation of America's national public lands legacy into locally controlled fiefdoms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

MR: As long as we continue to consume and go into debt, which ultimately makes the country a bunch of fiefdoms. ❋ Mike Ragogna (2011)

What's a fiefdom, a [fief] ([TIMES] [9000]) ❋ Delta Star Kai (2018)