For many years he has run his company as though it were a personal fief financed with shareholder money.

His personal fief alone was worth enough to feed and support some 2.5 million people.

He was also accused of trying to make the country a personal fief.

In Bihar the man who ruled the state as a personal fief for much of the 1990's is a candidate in the current election.

They started treating the Gurdwara properties as if they were their personal fiefs.

But the area remains very much a personal fief, United Nations officials say.

They divided the Empire into personal fiefs and fought each other continuously.

In the election campaign, he used the institutions of Government and the mass media as if they were his personal fiefs.

They were seen as deeply corrupt, with commanders ruling over them as personal fiefs.

For more than two decades, the local's former president, Charles Hughes, ran the local as his personal fief.