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
The opinion is general that a man of Walker's strip is unthinkable for the chief magistracy of the greatest city in the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some would have even preferred a civil magistracy simply, as that of Alberic; they united rather in opposition to the emperor, than in favor of the pontiffs chosen without, or in defiance of, his authority.
From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois
The tribunate was not considered as one of the regular magistracies, and the censorship, according to the custom previously established, followed the consulship.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
But already in the reign of Domitian, as we have seen, legal provision had to be made for the contingency of an insufficient number of candidates for the municipal magistracies.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
The Roman magistracies were increased in number; the quaestorships from twenty to forty, and the eight praetorships finally to sixteen.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
After their admission to the consulship the plebeians were eligible to all the other magistracies.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
Unlimited plunder was at Cicero's command—provinces, magistracies, abnormal lieutenancies—but he took nothing.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
