518 examples of censors in sentences

Less radical departures from orthodox custom, it is true, have caused adverse comment in our watchful little town; but the spot was secluded from casual censors.

There isn't even a foot of good picture film in so common a thing as the arrest of a thiefand the censors would forbid it if there were.

"Nor do we charge ourselves," says Edward Irving, "with the defence of those backslidings which David more keenly scrutinized and more bitterly lamented than any of his censors, because they were necessary, in a measure, that he might be the full-orbed man to utter every form of spiritual feeling.

But the abuse of paternal power was checked in the republic by the censors, and afterward by emperors.

Senators held their places for life, but could be weeded out by the censors.

And as the Senate in its best days contained between three and four hundred men, not all the curule magistrates could enter it, unless there were vacancies; but a selection from them was made by the censors.

They were all experienced in affairs of State,most of them had been quaestors, aediles, praetors, censors, tribunes, consuls, and governors.

The French have an agent there who censors everything.

"In the second Punic war also, after the battle of Cannae, of the ten Romans whom Hannibal sent to Rome bound by an oath that they would return unless they obtained an agreement for the redemption of prisoners, the censors kept disfranchised those who perjured themselves, making no exception in favor of him who had devised a fraudulent evasion of his oath.

He also, in all probability, though it is not certain, took away from the censors their right of conferring or taking away senatorial rank.

There is something melancholy in the fact, that, the moment Dr. Holmes showed that he felt a deep interest in the great questions which concern this world and the next, and proved not only that he believed in something, but thought his belief worth standing up for, the cry of Infidel should have been raised against him by people who believe in nothing but an authorized version of Truth, they themselves being the censors.

Every five years the censors let the various works by auction to contracting companies, who engaged to carry them out for fixed sums, and make what profit they could out of the business (censoria locatio).

Polybius tells us that among those who were concerned, some took the contracts from the censors: these were called mancipes, because the sign of accepting the contract at the auction was to hold up the hand.

Even cautious, sensible men can scarcely keep themselves in such cases from being sharp censors.

The imitators of Spenser are indeed not very rigid censors of themselves, for they seem to conclude, that when they have disfigured their lines with a few obsolete syllables, they have accomplished their design, without considering that they ought not only to admit old words, but to avoid new.

It is impossible for human purity not to betray to an eye, thus sharpened by malignity, some stains which lay concealed and unregarded, while none thought it their interest to discover them; nor can the most circumspect attention, or steady rectitude, escape blame from censors, who have no inclination to approve.

" "In America," I replied, "we have never yet censored musical compositions, and many works are played freely because the censors and the reform societies' detectives cannot understand them.

But the editors who have long been acting as censors, and implement the agendas of the first two categories above, are also part of the problem.

"The censors reproved vice, which was admired.

"That the laws of the censors have banished him the forum."Ib., p. 140.

"That the laws of the censors have banished him from the forum.

They established many of their own shopsbakeries, tailoring establishments, and groceries; and in consequence of the lack of discipline and decency which prevailed in some of the cafés and restaurants, these places were conducted by German officers, who acted as censors of morals and professors of propriety.

Malcolm Cowley (A); 13Jan66; R378196. <pb id='063.png' /> There have to be censors.

* We may judge of the competency of many of these people to be official censors of education by the following specimens from a report of Gregoire's.

] This was one act that caused these censors to become notorious; another was that they deprived each other of their horses and made each other ærarii [Footnote: Ærariusa citizen of the lowest class, who paid only a poll-tax and had no right to vote.]

518 examples of  censors  in sentences