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
From testimony dug up during the magistracy hearings, Andrew G. McLaughlin, ousted vice squad member, was indicted last week for perjury.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor did he herd with the athletic, who drift mainly into the unpaid magistracy, nor with the worldly, who usually go in for the church.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
The quinquennales, in framing the list, took first the members on the roll of the previous term, and then those who had been elected to magistracies since the last census.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
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
Another evidence of the same conditions is the change which took place in the position of the local magistracies.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
The inferior magistracies, except in populous places, are in the hands of private persons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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
