Sentence examples for intendant of from inspiring English sources

STOUTENBURGH, Intendant of Washington Asylum, v. HENNICK.

In 1811, inspired by struggles in Mexico and El Salvador, revolutionaries deposed the governing intendant of Nicaragua.

After serving as intendant at Rouen, Chamillart was made intendant of the finances of the kingdom in 1690.

Peter Jonas, who served as intendant of the company from 1993 until last year, steadily modernized the repertory, and Nagano seems determined to push even further.

It's directed by Pierre Audi, intendant of the Netherlands Opera and once a familiar figure in London contemporary music, here making his ENO debut.

A few years ago, he fell out with the Intendant of the Deutsche Oper and the city fathers in Berlin, resigning before his contract was due to expire.

Below the superintendents but also in the royal council in the 16th century were the intendants of finance.

At the head of the administration of the départements were the prefects, who carried on the tradition of the intendants of the ancien régime, supervising the application of the laws and acting as the instruments of centralization.

Territorial readjustments were carried out in the interest of defense, and a modern administrative organization the intendant system, of French origin and already operating in Spain itself was introduced.

He was appointed intendant (administrator) of justice in Guyenne in 1621 and then intendant to the army in Aunis and Saintonge.

Their demands included the abolition of the office of intendant, a reduction in the level of the taille, and the restoration of normal judicial procedure in registering financial edicts in the Parlement.