How To Use Triumvirate In A Sentence

  • But I do know there is a greater prospect he will seek a bit of equity in the distribution of investment and development of infrastructure than the present triumvirate.
  • The former category includes a triumvirate of flame-heated specialties: liqueur-spiked Gruyère as a dip for French bread, meats fried in hot peanut oil, and strawberries dunked in melted chocolate.
  • One subtle element of those checks and balances is that they are based on a triumvirate of power, not a face-off. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Feature Not a Bug
  • In 36, Octavian defeated Pompey's son Sextus Pompeius at Naulochus, and also ousted Lepidus from the triumvirate.
  • Atleast one - third of this triumvirate isn't going anywhere, so I'm seeing more fiction than fact.
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  • Under a ruling triumvirate, no one executive has clear control.
  • The men wearing numbers 5, 6 and 35 make up a defensive triumvirate as formidable, aggressive, powerful and obdurate as any in the club's history.
  • Leaving behind the triumvirate, we enter into the duple meter of blank and, then, free verse. THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO
  • The deadlocked triumvirate of urban political authority was unable to effect the economic changes necessary to revitalize the local economy.
  • However, Elizabeth, James and Henry formed a triumvirate of monarchs, to which Essex, as her creature, could not aspire.
  • He provided the balance within the ruling triumvirate, holding command over the 45,000-strong army.
  • The unholy triumvirate of developer, planner and architect had maimed it for ever in the sixties and seventies.
  • ‘It was thought we'd be quite a good triumvirate,’ he explains.
  • In the wake of his death, three men moved forward to form a new triumvirate which would punish Caesar's assassins and then divide up the Roman world.
  • They used bribery to get him elected consul for 59 (this pact is known as the ‘first triumvirate’ - a term without ancient authority).
  • In the Bacon Labor Government three men were invariably referred to as the triumvirate and credited with being the power behind the Tasmanian Government's success.
  • It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really commutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice -- hell's great triumvirate -- to banishment eternal. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
  • And a seafood triumvirate of bluefin tuna, prawn in parsley purée, and scallop carpaccio with bottarga is too stingily portioned to fully enjoy.
  • Antony emerged triumphant and the dominant partner of the triumvirate, while Octavian's seeming cowardice caused a severe if temporary setback to his ambitions.
  • Robespierre, on the extreme Left, with perhaps Petion and lean old Goupil, for the very Triumvirate has defalcated, are shrieking hoarse; drowned in Constitutional clamour. The French Revolution
  • The executive power was vested in a triumvirate that was even more moderate than the assembly.
  • The unholy triumvirate of developer, planner and architect had maimed it for ever in the sixties and seventies.
  • In recent years the Delius cause has hardly been helped by the demise – within months – of a triumvirate of his most devoted exponents: Vernon Handley, Richard Hickox and Charles Mackerras. Delius: beauty in the ear of the beholder
  • And for full-on red carpet va-va-voom, the big-budget Sin City, from the golden triumvirate of Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, should be hard to beat.
  • Since 1924, Gleneagles has been part of a triumvirate of attractions that started with yachting in Cowes, continued with polo in Deauville and ended with grouse shooting and golf in Perthshire.
  • Cicero was killed on the seventh of December, about ten days from the settlement of the triumvirate, after he had lived _sixty-three years, eleven months, and five days_. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements
  • Finally, in the last few days, IBM, the father of PC technology, has added its corporate voice to those of this powerful triumvirate.
  • If one demarcates alpha, beta, and gamma world cities as three meaningful tiers, the alpha tier includes the usual urban triumvirate (London, New York, and Tokyo) but also Paris.
  • The opening triumvirate is as strong as any string of songs he's written, and the wistful finality of the sweetly cathartic title track foreshadows a disappointing comedown.
  • For now there are two rival triumvirates - main owner, dedicated trainer and retained jockey - fighting it out for supremacy.
  • In fact, they are a staggering triumvirate of imagery crafters.
  • -- In Act Two, a immature Pompey is in fighting behind opposite a triumvirate of Octavius, Antony as good as Lepidus, fervent to rehabilitate a reputation of his father, once cheered by a Roman mob, killed in conflict by Julius Caesar. Archive 2009-11-01
  • He shot into fame as one of the triumvirate during an All-India agitation against the partition of Bengal.
  • But that did not happen, and the House of Lords survived in a triumvirate with the king and Commons.
  • In 1923, as he fought for ‘proletarian democracy’ against the triumvirate led by Stalin, he changed his mind again, but by then he was too involved to speak decisively.
  • The three brothers made an unlikely triumvirate.
  • The great triumvirate of white South African novelists share obvious preoccupations in the new South Africa.
  • In betraying your fellow Kings you have broken the sacred Triumvirate of Atlantis.
  • Sending a triumvirate of trained pollsters and media men into the bumpkin's backwoods barrio, he hopes to help the honky-tonk hick win more than his fair share of the illiterate Appalachian vote.
  • I could see Flynn's place now - a vital point in the Brismand triumvirate. COASTLINERS
  • The kingdom of unloved avians is ruled by the trash triumvirate: House Sparrow, European Starling, and Rock Pigeon.
  • The five that had already fallen when John received the vision were the regal power, the consular, the decemvirate, the military tribunes, and the triumvirate. The Last Reformation
  • Mark Antony has been spending his time in Egypt with his mistress, Cleopatra, and neglecting his duties as part of the triumvirate of Rome.
  • There can be a motion of no confidence in the whole ruling triumvirate or quadrumvirate but not in an individual leader. ADDRESS OF NELSON MANDELA, PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS ON RECEIVING AN HONORARY LLD DEGREE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND
  • Part documentary, part historical record keeping, and part voyeurism is the triumvirate of this disc.
  • The government has also organized a triumvirate merger between three state-owned financial institutions.
  • The unpalatable truth, which the cosy triumvirate of mainstream parties refuse to face, is that there is not, and never has been a liberal consensus in this country.
  • After the assassination of Julius Caesar and seizure of power by the Second Triumvirate, Brutus and Cassius were left commanding republican forces in the east.
  • The shape of post-war Europe was decided in Potsdam in 1945 by the Allied triumvirate of Churchill, Truman and Stalin.
  • It should have focused the minds, but Liverpool were still looking lethargic, with the striking triumvirate remarkably light on goalscoring opportunities.
  • The unholy triumvirate of developer, planner and architect had maimed it for ever in the sixties and seventies.
  • The recipes inside are a grim compendium of lumberingly heavy dinosaur classics - flour-thickened cream sauces, heart - clogging glacages and soubises, the obligatory triumvirate of ‘protein, starch, vegetable’ on nearly every plate.
  • The “second triumvirate” could be considered a form of amicitia, since that was the word that the Romans used to denote political alliance; and Pollio may have structured his history by beginning and ending it with these two instances of friendship among princes. Cracking the Shakespeare Code - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
  • But she had difficulty wresting control from the old triumvirate and before long she too was involved in a turf war with other senior managers.
  • Hermione isn't portrayed as the main character but she is the main source of knowledge, even wisdom, I would say, and adds strength in the triumvirate.

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