(n.) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart Tootal has sent his men into remote valleys in north Helmand, previously the undisputed fief of drug dealers and the Taliban.
(2) In Sri Lanka, the son of the president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, himself the son of a prominent politician, has won a seat in the family fief of Hambantota and significant numbers of family members fill posts across the country's administration.
Fife
Definition:
(n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.
(v. i.) To play on a fife.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that routine cancer registration data require extensive validation before they can be used for epidemiological purposes; case-control studies can overcome some of the methodological problems involved in investigating apparent leukaemia clusters; and further environmental investigations are needed in two post code districts of Fife.
(2) In a series of blows to Murphy this week, Alex Rowley, the MSP and former Fife council leader who was a close ally of Gordon Brown’s, has resigned his frontbench post, with three other MSPs publicly questioning Murphy’s continued role as leader.
(3) Docherty, the Labour MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, told Radio 4’s World at One: “We have a moribund party in Scotland that seems to think that infighting is more important than campaigning.
(4) Cyclist Mark Beaumont, 28, from Fife, was also on board making a documentary about the voyage for the BBC.
(5) Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, of Romany descent, he began singing his own, blues-based songs in local folk clubs, but said he was forced to leave the area because he was picked on by a local gang.
(6) For a girl who left school at 15 and started work in a Fife butcher's shop, my aunt had done well.
(7) The Daily Telegraph reported he had submitted an electricity bill for his home in Fife which partly covered a period when London was his designated second home.
(8) These attacks on the SNP's record – in Fife and in Edinburgh – were relentless and very well funded.
(9) Other results that day were: Airdrie 1-1 Clyde, East Fife 1-1 Motherwell, Falkirk 0-3 Aberdeen, Hibs 0-1 Rangers, Partick 0-1 Ayr, and St Johnstone 0-0 Dundee.
(10) Legal observers warned, however, that a sheriff sitting without a jury was limited by law to sentences of a maximum of 12 months, taking Walker under the legal threshold set by the law.Claire Baker, Labour MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, also said that Nicola Sturgeon, the deputy first minister and SNP deputy leader, should state publicly whether she was told in 2008 about Walker's history of domestic violence.
(11) • 182-186 Ocean Road (0191-456 1202, colmansfishandchips.com ) Anstruther Fish Bar, Fife Photograph: Alamy It's all hands on deck at Anstruther's, where the whole family pitch in with fishing and frying duties.
(12) The implications of this in relation to the future provision and pattern of long term care for the frail elderly in Fife are considerable.
(13) Social workers are firefighting instead of being allowed to do the work they are trained to do.” Similar sentiments were voiced by David Thomson, vice-convener of the Scottish Association of Social Workers and a member of BASW’s council, who works with women offenders in Fife.
(14) As a new report on the current state of the UK’s libraries reveals that more than 100 branches closed last year, a reduction of 14% in the total number of libraries since 2010 , bestselling crime novelist McDermid called the situation in Fife “disgraceful”.
(15) As her old boss Alex Salmond, out campaigning in Fife, enthused that his former protege was “wiping the floor with the Westminster old boys’ network”, Sturgeon offered words of caution: “We’ve got to see how people vote; after all, there’s a danger that all of us will get carried away with the post-match analysis.” Judging by the sheer energy and spirit of the scores of activists gathered on St John’s Road in the prosperous suburb of Costorphine, this is yet another seat the Liberal Democrats are unlikely to hold.
(16) To make any progress the sustainable options must be more attractive, and there must be progressive steps towards electrification, integration with buses and cycling, and moving freight onto rail.” Small towns, big plans: how better transport can boost the local economy Read more Three of the projects that could bring about serious shifts to sustainable transport are in Fife, in the heart of Scotland but lacking long-term investment.
(17) So off he went, running across the hills of Fife to retrieve his son's paddling pool, all the while talking about international development policy.
(18) Maybe he still cherished fond memories of the time he ventured north as a parliamentary candidate for Central Fife in a large Merc driven by a former nanny.
(19) Mr Brown, who is 50, and 37-year-old Sarah were married in a private ceremony in Fife, Scotland, in August 2000.
(20) Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sturgeon claimed Labour had won by running a "relentlessly negative" campaign, focusing on a single local issue – a steep rise in care charges for some Fife residents by an SNP-led council.