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17 Mar 2012, 4:14 pm
So vast and controlling and all-powerful has grown the DC political machine that the country at large is now just a collection of vassal states whose cowed, servile populations exist solely to provide goods and services to the grotesque sybarite class in the Capitol. [read post]
5 Apr 2014, 6:09 am
It is not a surprise that her relative liberality is born from the need to recruit and inspire soldiers because Daenerys cannot rely, as other Houses can, on her vassals to provide troops. [read post]
29 Dec 2017, 12:16 pm
Also under dispute was the issue of whether the archbishop needed to notify the king before excommunicating one of the king’s vassals. [read post]
26 Sep 2010, 3:04 pm
Lots of unhappy vassal states willing to make deals. [read post]
4 Jun 2009, 4:33 am
Just consider: while one might imagine that the telecommunications companies “won” in this case, it’s now the case that these companies are vassals of the US Government. [read post]
24 Oct 2010, 11:17 pm
Father: Boris Abramov, born Moscow, HolyPetroRussia; Mother: Galya Abramov, born Minsk, Vassal State Belarus. [read post]
26 Sep 2010, 2:26 pm
Lots of unhappy vassal states willing to make deals. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 8:51 am
Barrister Guy Vassall-Adams, representing the BBC, ITN, BSkyB, Guardian News and Media, The Times, The Sun and Associated Newspapers, which also sought the lifting of the restriction, told the Coroner: “The press is entitled to report anything that is communicated in open court, whether it’s communicated by way of evidence, whether it’s communicated by way of submissions, whether it’s the conduct of a judge, whether it’s the conduct of a witness, whether… [read post]
26 Aug 2015, 6:33 am
” Phrase of the month: As part of his campaign to raise the status of judges above that of bureaucrats, Rothenberger distributed a memo declaring that a judge should no longer call himself a civil servant but instead “the Fuehrer’s vassal. [read post]
14 May 2024, 5:52 am
” After years of trying to be neither, the government of Georgia, a neighbor of Russia, has chosen to be a vassal rather than be labeled by Moscow, however unjustifiably, as an enemy. [read post]
15 Oct 2008, 3:57 pm
Nussbaum points out that this was recognized by Madison, even in the symbolic realm: "a failure of respect in the symbolic domain is like an insult, a slap in the face, and, moreover, it is the sort of slap in the face that a noble gives to a vassal, one that both expresses and constitutes a hierarchy of ranks. [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 11:03 pm
And this.And of course, there's this.All of it is Guantánamo Bay.Torture chamber.Prison camp.Caribbean port.Naval Base.And oh, yeah, there's also this.Because, of course, Guantánamo Bay, and our naval base there, is part of Cuba.After the Spanish American War, when we wrested as spoils Puerto Rico and Hawaii and Guam and the Phillipines, we allowed Cuba a narrowly circumscribed autonomy, turning it into something of a vassal state. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 12:50 am
So these folks join the creditor nations in making most Americans their economic vassals. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 2:30 am
The defining characteristic of the crime was not its severity but the punishment: specifically, forfeiture of property: In its earliest known form, “felony†was not a criminal act per se but a breach of the feudal obligations between lord and vassal, and it did not necessarily result in the death of the felon. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 11:47 am
In July 1163, Thomas had enraged the king by excommunicating a royal vassal without first obtaining the king’s permission. [read post]
12 Oct 2015, 4:18 pm
IPSO has to date proved it to be the press’s loyal vassal in applying this stipulation. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 4:00 am
” Clearly, the rights in the Magna Carta were guaranteed to all free men, meaning not to vassals and the like. [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 11:15 am
Because of geographic proximity, common religion, and political interests, the Ottoman Empire immediately imposed its control over the peninsula and made the local Khan its vassal. [read post]
22 Jun 2014, 5:31 pm
The booklet has been revised by media law barrister Guy Vassall-Adams. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 11:32 pm
Under consumer law, a renter who has been mis-sold their accommodation can now back out of a fixed term tenancy, known as “unwinding a tenancy”, in a way that they couldn’t before, simply because, instead of being tied into William the Conqueror style legislation as a vassal or serf, they are now regarded as consumers, with more rights than Windy Miller once had. [read post]
