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How to use proconsul in a sentence

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Why not go the full hog and ask Dublin to send a proconsul to the loyal colony?
The council has some powers, but the US proconsul, Paul Bremer, has a veto over its decisions.
He would remain proconsul over Italy, Spain, Gaul and Syria, but the Senate would take up responsibility for the rest of the provinces.
They received tribute payments from western kings and gave to those kings titles like proconsul and Master of the Horse.
The second event is the subject of the first Louvre miniature, the Conversion of the Roman proconsul.
Rather, he is to function as an imperial proconsul, wielding unfettered power over a militarily occupied country.
The New York Times revealed recently a US occupation plan calling for Iraq to be governed by a military proconsul.
His inattention provides a foil for the conversion of the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus at the center of the image.
In Nicaragua, as elsewhere, no self-determination is tolerated and the U.S. ambassador is the de facto proconsul.
He is also here as a sort of European proconsul to advise the Americans on how to repackage their policies.
Apart from the traditional magistracies, his only posts were those of imperial legate in Italy, in his case in Etruria and Umbria, where he owned land, and proconsul of Asia.
Under the old Republic, a proconsul was the supreme civil and military officer of the province, superior to all other Romans and natives in the province.
Government authority then rested with the Coalition Provisional Authority proconsul L. Paul Bremer.
They ridiculed leaked U.S. plans to install a proconsul in the Douglas MacArthur mold, strutting around with a cob pipe and dictating orders to a humiliated people.
The youthful conscript regretted that he must disobey, just as the proconsul regretted the good soldier he had lost.
This week, America's proconsul in Iraq, Paul Bremer, gave the health ministry its independence.
For Iraq, as well as for its American proconsul, this has to be third time lucky.
See articleBosnia acquired a new western high representative, or proconsul.
With each consul and proconsul allowed two legions each, that would add up to a possible total of eight legions present.
With the defeat of Japan, MacArthur became the virtual American proconsul in Tokyo, often ignoring instructions from Washington on occupation policy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This speech so much enraged the proconsul, that Nichomachus was put to the rack.
This proconsul was antonine, who at that time had been appointed to the office by Adrian.
Not only the proconsul, but the town crier also ascends the tribunal and appears wearing the toga like his master.
Shatrak demanded, looking from the proconsul to the Ministerial Secretary.
The case was tried by the proconsul himself, Claudius Maximus.
Even if the proconsul should ask me himself who my god is, I am dumb.
When the morning came, the Roman proconsul saw the Greek in his cell.
At the end of the year he was appointed proconsul of Numidia.
Presently a messenger came to the proconsul, and handed to him a message.
The quick eye of the proconsul saw the form of the woman move.
The curator of his city sent him in chains to the proconsul.
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