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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of feudalize.

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Examples

  • Instead, we should fear Mexico as another Colombia -- a feudalized state where the central government cannot exercise power over a multitude of violent non-state actors.

    Adam Elkus: What If a State Failed and Nobody Cared? 2009

  • And certainly any terrorist group seeking to operate in the Americas would find a feudalized Mexico to be an excellent operations base.

    Adam Elkus: What If a State Failed and Nobody Cared? 2009

  • But you get used to it quickly as part of the flavor of a future feudalized America where corporate clans -- the Christler-Cokes, Disney-Dows, Jockey-Visas, and the like own it all, leave literacy to the lower classes, and live lives of golden ease.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • The monarchy was now dominant, the nobles largely feudalized, the clergy (with royal grants) powerful, the bourgeoisie vigorous (fisheries and cattle raising), the yeoman class strong and independent.

    e. Scandinavia 2001

  • The classic instruments of the state have been feudalized through a corporatist political system, and control has passed to the barons.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • The classic instruments of the state have been feudalized through a corporatist political system, and control has passed to the barons.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • The classic instruments of the state have been feudalized through a corporatist political system, and control has passed to the barons.

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • An institutionalized civil service was the example that stood before his eyes in contrast to a feudalized service.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

  • An institutionalized civil service was the example that stood before his eyes in contrast to a feudalized service.

    THE MORAL DIMENSION Amitai Etzioni 1988

  • In the struggle for such Latin America, in opposition to the obedient voices of those who usurp its official representation, there arises now, with invincible power, the genuine voice of the people, a voice that forges ahead from the heart of its tin and coal mines, from its factories and sugar mills, from its feudalized lands, where "rotos,"

    THE HAVANA DECLARATION 1960

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