91 Verbs to Use for the Word senators

The plan adopted is to cause each present provincial parliament, and later each provincial council, to elect eight senators.

In 1828 the Legislature of Pennsylvania instructed their Senators in Congress "to procure, if practicable, the passage of a law to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia."

For that the intention of the commons was not to abolish the senate by revolting to the Carthaginians, but to murder the senators, and deliver the state thus destitute to Hannibal and the Carthaginians.

Yet New York and Nevada, Rhode Island and Texas, each send two senators to Washington, while on the other hand in the lower house each state has a number of representatives proportioned to its population.

In other cases, the state is divided into senate districts only, and each senate district chooses one senator and an assigned number of representatives.

Leave being granted him, he departed. XXIII.When day appeared Caesar ordered all the senators and their children, the tribunes of the soldiers, and the Roman knights, to be brought before him.

The gentleman from Indiana writes his senator a letter.

"I want to tell you two Senators that there's only one thing that I want in Washingtonand you haven't offered it to me yet.

He weakened the Senate by increasing its numbers to nine hundred, and by appointing senators himself from his army and from the provinces,those who would be subservient to him, who would vote what he decreed.

He was prevented, however, from doing this, and an act was passed prohibiting any senator from taking part in gladiatorial combats, any slave from serving as lictor, and any burning of dead bodies from being carried on within fifteen stadia of the city.

Fear then seized the senators, lest, as the minds of many surrounding states were incensed against them, some foreign power should attack the state, now without a government, and the army, now without a leader.

A glance at the figure of his guest seemed to apprise the senator of his character, for the reception, while it was distinguished by the quaint courtesy of the age, was that of one expected.

I do not envy the senator the full benefit of his argument.

In practice there were six of them,three to nominate senators, and three to make a review of the knights.]

Cato reproached another senator with the fact, that he had the effrontery to deliver Greek recitations with the due modulation at Greek revels.

" "This is so true, that it scarce needed so clear an exposure," drily returned the senator.

He created one hundred senators, either because that number was sufficient, or because there were only one hundred who could be so elected.

Being abandoned by all without exception he began forming plans to kill the senators, burn the city to the ground, and sail to Alexandria.

Of the ancient Romans no one,not to mention such as had once been slaves,who had grown up as a free citizen even, was allowed to wear gold rings, save senators and knights,as has been stated.

"I've known enough Senators to know that I'd never meet an honest one," he muttered.

Caesar went into one of his usual frenzies, cursed half the senators by name, and ordered out a cohort from a legion getting ready to embark at Ostia.

They sure did cuss him: 'The , , , old senator,' they would say.

When he effected nothing even through the soldiers, he despatched senators, showing them the covenants made between himself and Antony, and offering the envoys as arbitrators of the differences.

The praetors detained the senators in the house for several days from sunrise to sunset, deliberating under whose conduct and by what forces, the victorious Carthaginians could be opposed.

The memory of Gaius disgusted the senators so much that they resolved that all the bronze coinage which had his image stamped upon it should be melted down.

91 Verbs to Use for the Word  senators