Sentence examples for equestrians from inspiring English sources
The publicans, primarily members of the equestrian order (equites), gained significant power in the provinces and in Rome when equestrians became jurors in the court of extortion, which investigated the activities of provincial governors (122 bc).
The Hidatsa language is most closely related to that of the Crow, with whom they were once united; after a dispute over the division of a buffalo carcass sometime between the late 17th and the early 18th centuries, the Crow chose to leave village life and become nomadic equestrians.
Roycroft's sons Barry, Wayne, and Clarke also became champion equestrians, each competing along with his father in at least one of his Olympic appearances after 1960.
Constantine raised many equestrians to senatorial rank, having in his earlier reign the still rapidly increasing ranks of the civil service to fill it was at least 50 times the size of the civil service under Caracalla and having in his later reign a second senate to fill, in Constantinople (see below).
He was billed as "the One Great and Only Hero and Bareback Horseman and Gold Champion-Belted Emperor of All Equestrians".
Aside from horse-related technology, such as halters and saddles, the tools of equestrians and pedestrians were quite similar and very typical of hunting and gathering cultures: the bow and arrow, stone knife, rabbit stick, digging stick, basket, net, and flat seed-grinding slab and hand stone.
His other typical figure groups are soldiers and equestrians, rather crude in appearance, modelled by hand after being cast in simple molds.
Case in point: "Bombproof Your Horse" (2004) may be baffling to non-equestrians, but to anyone who's spent time in stables, "bombproof" is common parlance for a horse that will not flinch at anything, even a six-foot fence or another horse crashing into it, at a full gallop, on a polo field.
The short work for mezzo soprano and chamber orchestra will be performed in the Olympic stadium-sized equestrian centre beside the derelict Necarne castle, a space she described as "amazing – and with a perfect acoustic".
Turkmenistan's equestrian-mad leader has been honoured with a huge monument in the capital city, featuring his likeness atop a golden horse.
He came from a comfortable family background, although he was not in absolutely the top tier of the class system (being equestrian rather than senatorial in rank).
