magistracy
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A spokesperson from the department tells BBC Newsbeat that "the government wants to ensure that the magistracy reflects the diversity of the communities it serves, including age, background and experience".
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2025
The DNA’s chief prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kovesi, a basketball star in her teens, rose through the magistracy before getting the top job in April 2013.
From Economist ● Feb. 19, 2015
While what Barton, and possibly Rio Ferdinand, tweeted was seriously prejudicial, it fails the substantial risk test because of the expectation of impartiality of the magistracy and judiciary.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2012
As for the President, Connecticut's Roger Sherman described "the executive magistracy as nothing more than an institution for carrying the will of the legislature into effect."
From Time Magazine Archive
Action of the Church in hearing and deciding causes, 303 Her proper jurisdiction in the exterior and interior forum, 304 The episcopal magistracy exercised in a fourfold gradation, 306 4.
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
The minimum age of twenty-eight years was set for the holding of the quaestorship, and an interval of two years was required between successive magistracies.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
The decemvirs—those who codified the laws—came into supreme power, and suspended the other great magistracies, and ruled, under the direction of Appius Claudius, in an arbitrary and tyrannical manner.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
The curia and municipal magistracies had ended by becoming unwilling cogs in the imperial financial administration.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
Next come the local magnates who have been dignified by election to any of the four great municipal magistracies.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
He seized upon half the magistracies, as his own private property, to be given away by himself; and he virtually seized upon the other half, by claiming the nomination of the candidates.
From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket
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