Word: feudally
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...though most Tories are reluctant to adopt a measure that might make the Lords even more ineffectual than at present, they fear that unless it is reformed, a future socialist government may abolish the Lords altogether on the ground that an upper chamber based on inheritance is a feudal relic that has no place in a modern democracy...
...expedition was costing Nasser heavily in money ($1,000,000 a day) as well as in blood. Only last month, Yemen's self-proclaimed President, Abdullah Sallal, the former commander of the palace guard who turned against the Imam, seemed to have the tiny feudal land firmly under control. Even when Saudi Arabia's Nasser-hating Crown Prince Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein rushed arms, advisers and money to the royalists, they seemed to have little effect...
...hero, or villain, of the antispending, anticorruption drive is tall, hawk-nosed Crown Prince Feisal, 57, who was hurriedly called home last October by his brother, King Saud, when revolution in neighboring Yemen threatened Saudi Arabia's feudal regime. "We are discouraging unnecessary luxury and wast," said Prince Feisal last week in his Red Palace in the capital city of Riyadh. "We have stopped playing with money. We are now devoting all our resources to vital and beneficial projects and, thanks to Allah, we have great resources: nearly 50 billion barrels in proven oil reserves and $400 million...
When Rome ruled most of the known world, its patriotic impulse still came from the Eternal City. The feudal lords of the Middle Ages gave their allegiance to king, not country, and French barons fighting on the side of invading English kings were considered faithful vassals, not collaborators. Writes Historian Carlton Hayes: "Nationality has always existed...
Douglas praised the Peace Corps efforts. "Russia is a competitor whom we'll have to meet teacher for teacher in every underdeveloped country," he said. He also emphasized the futility of military grants that allowed existing governments to maintain a "feudal" status quo and withhold civil liberties, but did not enable them to protect their countries from Russian aggression...