Example Sentences

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To some extent that’s also true of the Camorra and ’Ndrangheta, where the magistrature has also enjoyed some success.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2012

Today, the underpaid magistrature has become the refuge of law graduates who fear failure as lawyers, and the juge d'instruction is the lowest rung on the judicial ladder.

From Time Magazine Archive

"In every true democracy the magistrature is not an advantage but an onerous burden, not to be assigned to one more than to another."

From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John

It is said that there is no superstition in the magistrature of China.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

All these labourers will soon finish the plantation, if you superintend them, and are not appointed to some magistrature.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage