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Pakistan has far fewer billionaires than India does, but feudal habits are more ingrained.
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The series began as an anti-Lord of the Rings—set in a brutal world with a feudal society where heroism was mostly rewarded with a quick and disappointing death.
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That August, the feudal system and tithes were abolished and the Declaration of the Rights of Man enumerated the principles of the revolution.
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HBO SHARE 1 of 10 Benioff and Weiss claim to have seen no other possible outcome for a character stranded in a marriage to a psychopath, in a skewed version of feudal society.
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The regime’s only macroeconomic plan involves feeding and maintaining the black markets—for dollars, oil, food, and medicine—which mainly profit those in the military, in return for their feudal loyalty to the regime.
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Her sentence feels, in its elemental simplicity, like something from feudal Japan.
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With that transition beginning and clans battling each other nearby, Gosuke realizes that peasants are less bound than usual to their roles in feudal society.
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Drug bosses known as ‘the Tequila Man’ and ‘the Fish’ rule like feudal lords ... [and] residents get kidnapped in groups.
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Origin and Etymology of feudal
see 2feud
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playDefinition of feudal for English Language Learners
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: of or relating to feudalism
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