How To Use Proconsul In A Sentence
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There had been formerly on the pathways of Dardilly calvaries built by pious forebears; destroyed on order of the revolutionary proconsul of Lyon, the famous Fouché, the crosses lay in the grass.
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Rather, he is to function as an imperial proconsul, wielding unfettered power over a militarily occupied country.
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They ridiculed leaked U.S. plans to install a proconsul in the Douglas MacArthur mold, strutting around with a cob pipe and dictating orders to a humiliated people.
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A little later came the proconsuls, men of imperial gravitas, stately courtesy and crisp, regulation haircuts.
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They made clear that the US aimed to conquer the country and install a military proconsul - along the lines of General MacArthur's six and a half-year rule in Japan - before handing it over to a puppet government.
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Caesar proconsul of the province of Further Spain; victorious campaign against the Lusitani which permits him to seek a Triumph in Rome.
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The Proconsul offers him a last-minute reprieve, however, if he will repent and swear by the genius of Caesar.
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With the defeat of Japan, MacArthur became the virtual American proconsul in Tokyo, often ignoring instructions from Washington on occupation policy.
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In the time of Caligula the administration of Africa was divided in such a way that the military power, with the foreign policy, was under the control of the lieutenant of the emperor, who could be called a hegemon (as in St. Luke), while the internal affairs were under the ordinary proconsul.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Like the proconsuls of ancient Rome, the viceroy governed, administered, judged, superintended the royal treasury, was commander in chief of the army, and the vice patron of the church.
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He said he supposed the proconsul was the friend of Caligula, who often visited Agrippa; and expressed a surmise that he himself might be exiled, or that perhaps his throat would be cut.
Herodias
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At least one of the devoured primates, an early ape called Proconsul, is thought to have been an ancestor to both modern humans and chimpanzees.
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Florinus may have belonged to his suite, and Irenæus in after years might well call the proconsul's retinue, in
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
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The provinces were divided between the Emperor and the Senate; those heads of provinces who were directly responsible to the Emperor and the military authorities were called proprà ¦ tors; those who were under the jurisdiction of the Senate were called proconsuls.
Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People
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proconsular offices
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He would remain proconsul over Italy, Spain, Gaul and Syria, but the Senate would take up responsibility for the rest of the provinces.
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Above all their proconsuls and representatives must let themselves be seen and talk to the people.
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Oakley, the special U.S. envoy to Somalia, became a kind of proconsul, alternately cajoling and threatening the factions in order to stop the fighting, deliver food to the hungry and start rebuilding a nation.
The Father Of All Warlords
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The chapter on the rise of the proconsuls demonstrates how the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 invested tremendous power in the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and regional commanders in chief.
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In September 1911 he became the proconsul of Egypt, ruling there and in the Sudan until August 1914.
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The latter has taken on a role akin to the proconsuls of the Roman Empire, dutifully relaying ever more onerous conditions imposed by the IMF.
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Nero, however, wished to bring about some reform which would help the masses, and he gave orders in an edict that the rates of all the vectigalia be published; that at Rome the pretor, and in the provinces the propretor and proconsul, should summarily decide all suits against the tax-farmers and that the soldiers should be exempt from these same vectigalia.
The Women of the Caesars
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Why not go the full hog and ask Dublin to send a proconsul to the loyal colony?
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A little later came the proconsuls, men of imperial gravitas, stately courtesy and crisp, regulation haircuts.
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For the garrulous voice of the crier is the voice of a hired servant, the words read by the proconsul from a written document constitute a judgement, which, once read, may not have one letter added to it or taken away, but so soon as it is delivered, is set down in the provincial records.
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
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Finally, lording over the tumult is the third major actor in the drama, the Roman proconsul Heraclius, who directs the route of the procession from his mount in the exact center of the canvas.
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The U.S. command has divided the world into several command sectors, each with their own powerful 'proconsul' protecting the rights of the empire [3].
State of the Nations II: War on terror
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As praetor 148, he was sent to Macedonia, probably with proconsular status, and remained until 146, defeating Andriscus and perhaps another pretender.
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It needed only a few Roman officials, with a proconsul at their head, to govern this senatorial province; moreover, to judge from the epigraphic sources, very few Roman citizens were tempted to settle there.
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Above all it heralded the end of the proconsular autonomy hitherto enjoyed by the representatives on mission.
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It carefully contrived the fantasies of a modern Roman Empire and grafted the passion for unrestricted authority on to the viceroy, governors and administrators who were greeted as proconsuls and centurians.
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[[994] Procurator] Over the senatorial provinces the senate appointed by lot yearly an officer, who was called "proconsul" and who exercised purely proconsul, civil functions.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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The actual title was imperium praeconsulare maius - greater proconsular power.
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The New York Times revealed recently a US occupation plan calling for Iraq to be governed by a military proconsul.
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He served in Britain under Claudius and was proconsul of Africa in 63.
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The council has some powers, but the US proconsul, Paul Bremer, has a veto over its decisions.
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Apart from the traditional magistracies, his only posts were those of imperial legate in Italy (an innovation of Hadrian), in his case in Etruria and Umbria, where he owned land, and proconsul of Asia.
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The topologies of each of these eight cladograms were identical to the MMPC, except that the relative position of Proconsul varied across the set creating a polytomy between Proconsul and the two hominoid clades.
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The ‘archaic’ group here included Proconsul with Afropithecus, Turkanapithecus, Equatorius, Kenyapithecus, and Griphopithecus.
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The ex-Unocal man is now special US envoy to his native country - in effect, the US proconsul in Kabul, who supervises the political affairs of the Afghan puppet regime from day to day.
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Studies of Mughals and missionaries, of explorers and proconsuls, have reshaped metropolitan studies, including the character of imperial expansion itself.
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The proconsul was a prudent man, and he called for Barnabas and Saul and wished to hear the word of God.
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Under the old Republic, a proconsul was the supreme civil and military officer of the province, superior to all other Romans and natives in the province.
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Like the proconsuls of ancient Rome, the viceroy governed, administered, judged, superintended the royal treasury, was commander in chief of the army, and the vice patron of the church.
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Like the proconsuls of ancient Rome, the viceroy governed, administered, judged, superintended the royal treasury, was commander in chief of the army, and the vice patron of the church.
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They received tribute payments from western kings and gave to those kings titles like proconsul and Master of the Horse.
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In Nicaragua, as elsewhere, no self-determination is tolerated and the U.S. ambassador is the de facto proconsul.
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Trajan emphasized at once his personal control and the constitutionality of his sway, by bearing on his campaigns the actual title of "proconsul," which no other emperor had done.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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Suetonius (in Claud.c. 25) may seem to offer a proof how strangely the Jews and Christians of Rome were confounded with each other.] 26 See, in the xviiith and xxvth chapters of the Acts of the Apostles, the behavior of Gallio, proconsul of Achaia, and of Festus, procurator of Judea.] 27 In the time of Tertullian and Clemens of Alexandria, the glory of martyrdom was confined to
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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In the year following his term of consulship, the proconsul held imperial authority outside of Rome in whichever province he was assigned to govern.
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This was the main purpose of Rome's magistrates for most of her history, and even when they had become mostly civilian magistrates, as propraetors and proconsuls they still went out to govern provinces and wage wars.
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The ancient road system in southern Gaul began after the foundation of the province of Gallia Transalpina in 118 BC, when the proconsul Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus constructed the Via Domitia.
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The second event is the subject of the first Louvre miniature, the Conversion of the Roman proconsul.
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Science places Proconsul in the family Pongidae, to which belong the three species of today's great apes.
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Notus pro rhetorice et accusatione inexoribile proconsulum infamum erat.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Now that’s how you deal with pirates.
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Hyrcanus, though he might call himself king, got only Jerusalem, along with a few pieces north and south, but even this small area he could not govern without checking in with the Roman proconsul in Damascus.
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What kind of economy would the US proconsul be supervising?
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His inattention provides a foil for the conversion of the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus at the center of the image.
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The Pact of Puteoli or Misenum or whatever you want to call it gave Sextus proconsular imperium over the Islands as well as the Peloponnese.
Antony and Cleopatra
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The proconsul and the police captain tried to persuade Polycarp to save his life by saying ‘Caesar is Lord’ and sacrificing to the Roman gods.
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It requires the ruthless repression of all those who oppose the US domination of Iraq and believe that the country should be run by the Iraqi people themselves, rather than US proconsuls, generals and corporate profiteers.
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Proconsul had monkeylike hands and feet, but it was not built for hanging in trees.
The Source
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He does this, too, from the ground up-from the recruitment of junior officers to the proconsuls at the top-and he follows the story from the origins of each service to the period of decolonization.
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Faltonia Proba was from a noble Roman family, and was probably the wife of the proconsul Clodius Celsinus Adelphius, who was prefect in AD 351.
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Recalled to Rome, Agricola lived in retirement, having refused the proconsulship of Asia.
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Although the taxonomic assignment of the Kisingiri and Tinderet material to the genus Proconsul is rather secure, the potential FAE and LAE for this taxon is somewhat problematic.
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The proconsuls had few illusions about the nature of the tasks they set themselves or of the people whom they hoped to liberate.
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If the Roman proconsul reinforced dominant notions of ideal masculinity and thereby captured the admiration of almost all the reviewers in 1834, the same cannot be said of the principal female figure in Ingres's painting.
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Instead, Morotopithecus is considered here to occupy the stratigraphic interval defined by the FAE of Proconsul and the FAE of Afropithecus.
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Khalilzad, who acts as a proconsul dictating US terms in Afghanistan, declared to the press that it was time for the regional commanders to ‘clarify’ whether they wanted to join the government.
