The Afghan President has repeatedly offered to try to work out a modus vivendi with the tribal and feudal leaders his party once labeled the enemies of progress and modernization.

Fundamentalists say it would merely install corrupt feudal leaders who created Afghanistan's problems in the first place.

They reorganized the army and consolidated power in the hands of family members at the expense of feudal leaders.

By the twelfth century, the term was being used to describe a man who organized the military force of a political or feudal leader on his behalf.

Later the Melatini family took possession of the land and became the most important feudal leaders of the area.

The commander had attacked this position as being as serviceable for a czar, or for any other feudal leader, as for the Communist party.

Each of the five feudal leaders looked it over in turn then.

John could see now how the feudal leader, his strength an overplus, might have given his aid to the weak, as an act of simple vanity.

"There's not even a nominal president who was protesting what Kadyrov is doing," she said, calling him a feudal leader.

Mr. Jumblatt, hereditary feudal leader of the left, in contrast, paired an unaccustomed necktie with his usual leather jacket and stovepipe bluejeans.