| A little later came the proconsuls, men of imperial gravitas, stately courtesy and crisp, regulation haircuts. |
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| The proconsuls had few illusions about the nature of the tasks they set themselves or of the people whom they hoped to liberate. |
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| Above all their proconsuls and representatives must let themselves be seen and talk to the people. |
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| Studies of Mughals and missionaries, of explorers and proconsuls, have reshaped metropolitan studies, including the character of imperial expansion itself. |
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| They were to be restored to the senate in 10 years under proconsuls elected by the senate. |
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| Pashas, khedives, sultans, kings, colonial proconsuls, colonels, and generals have taken turns ruling it autocratically and ruthlessly. |
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| This in effect gave Augustus constitutional power superior to all other proconsuls in the empire. |
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