| Because we knew that it was a bit of a fiefdom at that point in time. |
| At the auctions it was fiefdom against fiefdom and the spoils were dragged back to Japan. |
| They only wanted to continue to operate their little fiefdom as far from public scrutiny as possible. |
| It was originally just a 14th century stronghold house, fiefdom of a small Seigneury, vassal of the Earldom of Château-Chinon. |
| The intellectual elite often denounce his proclamations as transgressing outside his jurisdictional fiefdom. |
| Indeed, by all accounts Tsutsumi ran the public company like a private fiefdom. |
