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pretor

[ UK /pɹɪtˈɔː/ ]
NOUN
  1. an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic

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  • It was not necessary for the early Christians to sit in judgment on the title of every new emperor, whenever the pretorian guards chose to put down one and put up another; neither are God's people now in various parts of the world called upon to discuss the titles and adjudicate the claims of their rulers. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
  • During the negotiations between the Home Government and the Pretoria Executive that followed the Conference, and especially during the period of Mr. Hofmeyr's active intervention, his most necessary and pressing task was to prevent the Salisbury Cabinet from being "jockeyed" by Boer diplomacy out of the advantageous position which he had then taken up on its behalf. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
  • For their men of war; it is a dangerous state, where they live and remain in a body, and are used to donatives; whereof we see examples in the janizaries, and pretorian bands of Rome; but trainings of men, and arming them in several places, and under several commanders, and without donatives, are things of defence, and no danger. The Essays
  • The campaign was launched nationally in Pretoria on March 14 and provincially at Uitenhage on May 8.
  • What remain of Pretoria is a "cadastral area" registered in the deeds registry as a township, the City of Tshwane Metropolitan said on ANC Daily News Briefing
  • More often, Washington and Pretoria are locked in warm embrace.
  • The dam supplies water to millions of people in the Pretoria area, but the unicity has assured people that areas receiving piped municipal water were not at risk.
  • He was of noble descent, his father and grandfather being Christians and prefects of the pretorium of the Gauls. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • He said in Pretoria illegal telephone calls accounted for about half of this amount. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • He said at the police Endangered Species Protection Unit (ESPU) banquet in Pretoria the code would be non-negotiable, and was aimed at reversing what he described as a breakdown in the criminal justice system. ANC Daily News Briefing
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