Sentence examples for served as courts from inspiring English sources

Other indications that the Aztec were in the process of achieving further political integration are statements in several relaciones that the tax collectors served as courts of appeals in serious judicial cases and also that the Aztec introduced the cult of their national god Huitzilopochtli to conquered provinces.

After the war, they served as court reporters for war crimes trials in the Philippines.

Wood cleaned some houses and served as court bailiff when the judge came to town, but in February 1993, they were down to their last $5.

The palace, a popular tourist attraction, hosts an annual music festival that celebrates the works of Joseph Haydn, who served as court musical director in the late 18th century.

In 1768 he traveled to Vienna to inoculate the family of the Austrian empress Maria Theresa and subsequently served as court physician.

I served as court-appointed independent counsel in the investigation and prosecution of Michael K. Deaver after he left the Reagan White House to open his own lobbying firm.

Rather early in his career he certainly served as court poet of Sultan Sanjar of the great Seljuq dynasty (11th to 13th century).

Francesco Filelfo (1398 1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento and served as court poet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan.

He took up permanent residence in England from 1656, and served as court painter before and after the English Restoration.

Two High Courts hear appeals from the district courts and serve as courts of original jurisdiction in serious criminal cases, in which 12-person juries are impaneled.

In bankruptcy proceedings, special masters serve as court-appointed executors to preside over the liquidation of holdings.