(a.) Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system.
(a.) Anything held allodially.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shane Mortimer, a Guumaal Ngambri elder, said his people owned the “allodial title” and he had given authority to Murrumu to use the land for the embassy.
Udal
Definition:
(n.) In Shetland and Orkney, a freehold; property held by udal, or allodial, right.
(a.) Allodial; -- a term used in Finland, Shetland, and Orkney. See Allodial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Udall argued that the cover-up has continued until recently, pointing to discrepancies between evidence the CIA gave to Congress and an internal report by the former defense secretary Leon Panetta.
(2) Citing the razor-thin margin by which the NSA's bulk phone-records collection survived a vote last week in the House of Representatives , Wyden and Udall vowed to continue their push to curtail the programme.
(3) Earlier this week Udall released a statement saying he was "deeply disappointed" that Brennan "was unprepared to discuss the Intelligence Committee's recent report on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program" in a private meeting.
(4) Wyden and Udall have been thorns in the side of the intelligence community, using their position on the committee, which permits them privileged access to classified briefings, to repeatedly challenge senior officials on the accuracy of their public testimony.
(5) Udall barely mentioned government surveillance on the campaign trail, choosing instead to mount a singular focus on female voters, rarely straying from two topics : contraception and abortion.
(6) With a tone at points mournful and angry, Udall, who lost his re-election last month, said “the CIA has lied to its overseers and the public”, and blasted the White House for not holding anyone “to account”.
(7) One of the Democratic Senators who is in jeopardy of losing his seat on Tuesday is Colorado’s Mark Udall, who – along with Oregon’s Ron Wyden – has been one of the only voices of accountability on this committee of rubber-stamp wielders.
(8) It may be "more convenient" for the NSA to conduct a phone-records dragnet, Udall said, but "convenience alone cannot justify" the effort.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Democratic senator Mark Udall has fallen behind Gardner in polls.
(10) Udall and Wyden would almost certainly get kicked off the intelligence committee and lose all their clearances if they were to read the still-up-for-review truth about Bush-era atrocities out loud.
(11) Democrats are seeking to repeat history and have optimistically noted a surge in ballots from young and first-time voters that could upend a Republican advantage and tip the election in Udall’s favour.
(12) Unfortunately, the compensatory stories that the Democrats tell themselves the morning after a loss this monumentally headache-enducing sound exactly like the problems Mark Udall faced.
(13) He has not donated directly to Udall’s campaign this cycle, though he did contribute to Udall’s initial run for the Senate in 2008.
(14) In Colorado, the National Republican Senatorial Committee released a video called “The Mark Udall Dynasty” that spoofs the opening credits of the hit 1980s TV show Dynasty as the narrator says: “Wealthy, comfortable and established.
(15) "The executive branch has now confirmed that the rules, regulations and court-imposed standards for protecting the privacy of Americans' have been violated thousands of times each year," said senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, two leading critics of bulk surveillance, who responded Friday to a Washington Post story based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
(16) The ability of the NSA to track such data by country appeared to undermine assurances given to Wyden and his committee colleague, Mark Udall, that the NSA was unable to even estimate how many Americans its surveillance dragnets had swallowed up.
(17) "Sen Udall hopes he and his colleagues get specific answers out of Gen Alexander on what appears to be a discrepancy between what he told the appropriations committee yesterday [Wednesday] and the information previously provided to the intelligence committee."
(18) Senate intelligence committee members Ron Wyden and Mark Udall were particularly angered by evidence provided by Snowden that Congress had been kept in the dark about the proliferation of the surveillance state.
(19) [The CIA] knowingly provided inaccurate information to the committee in the present day, which is a serious offence and a deeply troubling matter for the committee, the Congress, the White House and our country,” said Udall.
(20) But Udall did publicly reveal, in outline, a secret and hotly disputed historical examination of CIA torture by ex-CIA director Leon Panetta, which has come to be known as the “Panetta review”.