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  • noun Plural form of bailiwick.

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Examples

  • The mullah bailiwicks have little to offer to the younger, better educated classes, too.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Carson would likely be dazzled by the extent to which governments of all stripes have since called on scientific experts to help populate a regulatory galaxy that extends from the humblest of municipal bailiwicks to the global economy.

    Role of science in regulation 2009

  • But the effort faces obstacles, among them the traditional bailiwicks in Congress for overseeing regulation.

    Derivatives Oversight Spurs House Turf Battle 2009

  • So they could go to their strengths, to their bailiwicks, where they knew there were a lot of Clinton supporters.

    CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2008 2008

  • Sulu province is one of the bailiwicks of Abu Sayyaf allied with different armed groups which is fighting the Philippine government for decades.

    Terrorists in Southern Philippines Back in Business Nomadicasian 2008

  • I know the bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey are not part of the UK but they both now have driving directions in Google Maps.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • Evidence of real change can be found in one of education's most influential bailiwicks, textbook publishing, according to Gilbert Sewall, director of the American Textbook Council, a nonprofit educational organization.

    A Is For Ashanti, B Is For Black ... 2008

  • I know the bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey are not part of the UK but they both now have driving directions in Google Maps.

    UK Google Maps Mashup Round-up! (Sep/08) 2008

  • The next generation will be characterized, as Chris Bowers perceives, with a set of more technocratic, good-government advocates, policy types who have a command of their specific bailiwicks, rather than the corporate-friendly DLC types of recent yore.

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • Because there were so many power centers, so many little fiefdoms and bailiwicks, so much checking and balancing, groups could pick and choose among parts of the system for leverage and for veto power.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

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