"independent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Not without reason have congressional committees been called independent fiefdoms.
- Somehow we must reach a happy compromise between the tyranny of autocratic chairmen and the chaos of a hundred independent fiefdoms.
- Committees have power and have been called independent fiefdoms.
- In May 1987 he hired Michael Francke to modernize the state's prisons, which an investigator had described as overcrowded and operated as "independent fiefdoms."
- "A university has got to see itself as an interacting entity," Mr. Walker said, "not a bunch of independent fiefdoms."
- Chinese settlers in neighbouring Sabah and Pontianak also established gambier and pepper plantations, although they existed as independent fiefdoms.
- Having inherited a loose conglomeration of independent fiefdoms, Mr. Pinola united them under the First Interstate banner and began expanding.
- What we have bought with this lavish expenditure is a mosaic of fiercely independent medical fiefdoms, each organized around a hospital.
- These small, largely independent fiefdoms had local money and local leaders, and frequently squabbled.
- This effectively turned IBM into several independent fiefdoms.
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