The late President Kim Il Sung had promulgated the Law on Equality of the Sexes immediately following the country's liberation from Japan, in order to emancipate women from feudal discrimination and oppression.

For example, in the late seventeenth century, when conflict between Korea and Japan erupted over the passage of Japanese fishermen to Ulleungdo, Tottori han (one of Japan s feudal clans) told Japan s central government that Ulleungdo and Dokdo did not fall within Japanese territory.

In 1258, the king of France relinquished his feudal authority over the County in the Treaty of Corbeil.

Ever since the Gramm Leach Bliley Act of 1999 repealed Glass Steagall, bankers have acted increasingly like feudal lords.

But Kuwait shows that there will invariably come a moment when holding onto feudal ways is no longer an option.

This reflected a feudal like corporatist approach, in which the direct relationship between the citizen and the state played no role.

Difference from northern Europe Between the 12th and 13th centuries, Italy was vastly different from feudal Europe north of the Alps.

Medvedev s promises to modernize the feudal conditions of Russia s army also set him apart, given the absolute failure of military reform during the Putin era.

Russia, Prokhorov concludes, is a feudal society, with Putin s political monopoly and economic mismanagement exacerbating the so called natural resource curse that afflicts many oil exporting countries.

An overlord was a person from whom a landholding or a manor was held by a mesne lord or vassal under various forms of feudal land tenure.

The Russian revolution of 1905 resulted in a general strike in Finland and the replacement of the feudal Diet of Finland with the modern Parliament of Finland.

There were many minor provinces in the region between southern Liguria and northern Tuscany dominated by the Malaspina Tuscany in this time was a part of feudal Europe.

He gave power to Shehu Shagari, the presidential candidate of the National Party of Nigeria, who was widely viewed as incompetent and yoked to feudal interests in Nigeria s Muslim north.

In the first instance, the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the 14th Century caused a shortage of labour and this had led to a breakdown in the feudal system.

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For Tocqueville, the grab for centralized power by the absolutist Bourbon monarchs, followed by the French Revolution and Napoleon s Empire, had destroyed the good with the bad in France s neo feudal order.

And to some, sometimes, it was the hedonism of gay life in Amsterdam or San Francisco, the sexual habits in some hippie communes and the almost feudal erotic privileges of rock stars.

Charles agreed to the abolition of feudal dues in return, the English Parliament granted him an annual income to run the government of 1.2 million, generated largely from customs and excise duties.

Although the State had taken legislative and policy measures after liberation, the idea of women's inferiority was deeply rooted in Korea's 2,000 year old feudal tradition and would take time to disappear.

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The US Japan security alliance means China cannot play a Japan card.

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Mr. Haneda (Japan) Japan welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 1637 (2005).

Later, with the development of feudal statehood, it became the title of a ruler of a state, and among East Slavs ( ( kniazhestvo ), ( kniazivstvo ) traditionally translated as duchy or principality), for example, of Kievan Rus'.

Mr. Tajima (Japan) Japan voted against the resolution that has just been adopted.

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