Sentence examples for provincial command from inspiring English sources
The unnerved Opportunist leadership dropped him from the cabinet and sent him in 1887 to an obscure provincial command.
In 52 bce, a year in which Pompey was elected sole consul and given a five-year provincial command in Spain, Caesar was allowed by a law sponsored by all 10 tribunes to stand for the consulship in absentia.
He had to make sure of the crucial provincial commands; it was also expedient to have some dissidents rounded up at home before his return and (he would be able to argue) on someone else's orders.
It was arranged that Pompey and Crassus were to be the consuls for 55 bce and were to get laws promulgated prolonging Caesar's provincial commands for another five years and giving Crassus a five-year term in Syria and Pompey a five-year term in Spain.
The additional troops are setting up several new outposts inside the city and are operating a provincial operations command, which was established Jan . 15and is led by a two-star Iraqi general.
The interests of the provincial state command the Alberta New Democrats—not the other way around.
The proconsul also commanded the army of Africa and was one of the few provincial governors in command of an army and yet formally responsible to the Senate rather than to the emperor.
In addition to the provincial government and command of the police, the Kurds control the Asaish, the feared undercover security service that works with the American military and, according to Asaish commanders, United States intelligence agencies.
The duties of the stadtholder included presiding over the provincial states (assemblies), control and command of provincial armies, and appointment to certain offices.
His ostensible superior, provincial governor Toryalai Wesa, commanded a fraction of Karzai's authority, despite the full force of American money and manpower backing Wesa up.
While Charles kept the grandees out of the central government of Spain itself, he had many prizes to offer in military commands, provincial governorships, and even viceroyalties in Italy and Spanish America.
