The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nomarchy \Nom"arch*y\, n.; pl. Nomarchies. A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.
Usage examples of "nomarchies".
Earth depended on such space ventures and Tad was working for the Nomarchies, not the Associated Habitats, who had long ago abandoned any enterprises near Earth orbit.
Benzi had claimed that children were sent to work in such places because the Nomarchies could afford the loss of a child more easily than that of an experienced worker.
More Nomarchies were formed, each with some autonomy, but ruled at first by one of the first Nomarchy’s Mukhtars, and later by those the Mukhtars had trained.
He thinks we forget that we’re part of the Nomarchies and that Earth still makes the decisions.
I’ve met men from a couple of other Nomarchies — they have real homes they can go back to someday.
The Nomarchies want to keep us the way we are, feeding them and thinking we’re still free.
A lot of people don’t realize it, but the future progress of all the Nomarchies hinges on that Project.
He claimed that we didn’t really understand what the Project would lead to, that once Venus was settled, it might even become something separate from the Nomarchies — as if it could.
When you were fresh from the Institute, you couldn’t praise the Nomarchies highly enough.
She was the mother of someone who had betrayed the Nomarchies, who had broken every agreement binding him.
The Mukhtars, who have had centuries to convince all the Nomarchies that this Project will enrich Earth and be its greatest glory, would never survive such a loss.
The Nomarchies might have looked to the satellites of the gas giants then, but any settlements there would be farther from Earth and its influence.