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
Thus our missionaries, converted into bishops, exercised a spiritual magistracy and sacred jurisdiction, which in the end placed them not only above other priests, but made them respected by, and necessary to, the temporal power.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
In her system, he says, she assigns to devout women spiritual functions, dignities, and even magistracies.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
At the beginning of his principate he transferred from the Assembly to the Senate the right of the election to the magistracies, thus relieving the senators from the expense and annoyance of canvassing the populace.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
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
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 Samuel Dill
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 Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
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