The cloak of senatorial courtesy has become a stench in the nostrils and a byword in the mouths of all honest citizens of the land. |
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The truth is, that on this occasion, had senatorial courtesy been on the job, it would have worked for a final vote. |
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Early exit-polling data indicated that he was leading in the North Carolina senatorial race. |
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But he was hopping mad about this breach of senatorial clubbability and rang the old boy to complain. |
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She apparently never talks about politics and has ruled out a senatorial bid, but friends say she is interested in the governorship. |
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The literary traditions of the senatorial aristocracy had also survived intact. |
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Needless to say, providing pork often comes with a little senatorial sleight of hand. |
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Representing his home state, he subsequently became a dominant figure in senatorial politics. |
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After two recounts, he was declared the senatorial winner over the Republican contestant. |
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He brought all of these qualities to that town meeting, an event that in many ways defined his senatorial career. |
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Amicitia principum, friendship with the emperor, was a sure way of gaining access to senatorial magistracies and other honorable positions. |
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The officers were drawn from citizens who were enrolled as patricians of senatorial rank or equestrians, also known as knights. |
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But much of the inner unrest of the fifth century was also due to the attempts by senatorial aristocrats to expand their power. |
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His senatorial voting record and his record of writing legislation provides us with enough history for a factual and reasonable assessment. |
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He made his horse a Roman senator, complete with golden stall and senatorial robes. |
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She addresses the senatorial figure of a black man in the formal suiting of another era. |
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The rule is to gorgonize the speaker with a senatorial stare, and turn him into stone, almost. |
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On Tuesday, the Republicans suffered resounding defeats in the Presidential and senatorial arenas. |
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McCain and the boys will likely support him quickly and painlessly as a matter of senatorial esprit de corps! |
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We see him tall, trim, handsome, usually in a navy double-breasted blazer with brass buttons, the silver hair shining, a man with a senatorial look, if not presidential. |
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Delegation was essential in so unwieldy an entity, and, like his predecessors, Augustus appointed senatorial legates and equestrian prefects to serve his imperium. |
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The senatorial poll is thus not, in itself, more criticizable than that of the National Assembly. |
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The two senatorial candidates were earlier listed among alleged masterminds of a plot to overthrow the government that could be arrested without warrant. |
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The senatorial aristocracy with its widely dispersed estates had virtually disappeared, and the ownership of landed property tended to become more regional. |
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I think obviously the senatorial process has got to play out. |
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Insiders suggest it could take up to three fiscal years and a senatorial act to overhaul the current clearance system. |
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Now the senatorial elite with its wide-ranging interests had lost power. |
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Seven Democrats and eight Republicans contested their respective party's primary for the senatorial nomination. |
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The current calculation method has many exceptions, notably the senatorial clause protecting the weight of the Maritime provinces. |
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An electoral system requiring an absolute majority will be used for presidential, senatorial and mayoral elections. |
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The Constitutional Court had examined several complaints lodged by candidates of the senatorial elections and had rejected the appeals. |
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Since then, he has sat on many senatorial committees, chaired the National Finance Committee, and acted as vice-chair for many others. |
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This bill proposed holding elections in each province to guide the Prime Minister in the senatorial appointment process. |
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This was to be achieved in small, undramatic, and incremental ways that did not stir senatorial fears of monarchy. |
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Clodius set about depriving Caesar's senatorial enemies of two of their more obstinate leaders in Cato and Cicero. |
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This robbed the senatorial aristocracy of its prestige, and made it increasingly subservient to him. |
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The rise of provincial men to the senatorial and equestrian orders is an aspect of social mobility in the first three centuries of the Empire. |
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Education seems to have been standard for daughters of the senatorial and equestrian orders during the Empire. |
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Thence, he proceeded to Africa to deal with the remnants of Pompey's senatorial supporters. |
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However a senatorial inquiry after the Erika oil spill showed that the ports of regional importance did not all have ballast water and slop reception facilities. |
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Of all the manoeuvres of the senatorial hit squad the most effective was the telegram signed by all 26 senators which was sent to the representatives of 12 UN delegations a few days before the vote. |
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Each elector votes for two senatorial candidates. |
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This senatorial family tree is now possible thanks to collaborative genealogy websites like Geni and WikiTree, where you can work with thousands of other volunteers to make connections. |
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We wish the good senator well in his retirement and hope that he is able to find something to occupy his time as actively as his senatorial duties have over the past number of years. |
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Holding free and transparent local, parliamentary, senatorial and presidential elections during the transition period, and a referendum on certain changes to the Constitution. |
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The senatorial elections are also important if the timetable for further senatorial and other elections in the country, scheduled for 2009, is to be kept. |
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We will also continue to support the Provisional Electoral Council during the upcoming partial senatorial elections and in its transformation into a permanent electoral council. |
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The senators put forward the urgency of the senatorial elections, investment, road and sanitary infrastructure, managerial training, mechanization of agriculture and tourism as sectors to prioritize. |
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Membership of the senatorial order was a prerequisite to attain positions within the cursus honorum and to gain entry into the Roman Senate. |
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A rich senatorial aristocrat, Petronius Maximus, who had encouraged both murders, then seized the throne. |
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During the Roman Republic, Roman religion was organized under a strict system of priestly offices, which were held by men of senatorial rank. |
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Under his consulship, however, the Senate had little power in initiating legislation by introducing bills for senatorial debate. |
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Two senators were likewise elected from each senatorial district. |
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He was immensely hardworking and tried as hard as any democratic parliamentarian to treat his senatorial colleagues with respect and sensitivity. |
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He received the education of a young man of the privileged senatorial class, studying rhetoric and literature. |
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Nevertheless, the evidence suggests that Domitian did make concessions toward senatorial opinion. |
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Puerto Rico has 8 senatorial districts, 40 representative districts and 78 municipalities. |
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From an ancient senatorial family, Gregory worked with the stern judgement and discipline typical of ancient Roman rule. |
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The senatorial investigation involved subpoenas and testimony before Congress and, of course, went nowhere. |
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Republican senatorial candidate Terri Lynn Land is losing in Michigan. |
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She'd place a senatorial hold on a potential cabinet nominee? |
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The two highest ordines in Rome were the senatorial and equestrian. |
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In the West, that meant local senatorial families like his own. |
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The prior 70 years had witnessed a gradual erosion in senatorial powers. |
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As a senatorial Emperor, Trajan was inclined to choose his local base of political support from among the members of the ruling urban oligarchies. |
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All the appointments were of his own partisans, which robbed the senatorial aristocracy of its prestige, and made the Senate increasingly subservient to him. |
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The senatorial elite were involved heavily in private lending, both as creditors and borrowers, making loans from their personal fortunes on the basis of social connections. |
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Otway's play had the floating city of Venice stand in for the river town of London, and it had the dark senatorial plotters of the play stand in for the Earl of Shaftesbury. |
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The persons appointed under the new system were of senatorial or equestrian rank, according to the relative importance of the roads respectively assigned to them. |
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Exclusion of the old senatorial aristocracy threatened this arrangement. |
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The Antonine Plague had severely thinned the senatorial ranks, and with capable men now in short supply, Severus' career advanced more steadily than it otherwise might have. |
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Odoacer ruled from Rome and Ravenna, restored the Colosseum and assigned seats to senatorial dignitaries as part of the process of consolidating his rule. |
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The process was completed in 27 BC when the Roman Emperor Augustus annexed the rest of Greece and constituted it as the senatorial province of Achaea. |
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Although Sallust's purposes in writing have been debated over the years, it seems logical to classify him as a senatorial historian who adopted the attitude of a censor. |
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