8 sentences with 'appointed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word appointed and other words derived from it.
• « He always returned home at the appointed time. Often his father would be waiting for him, and the two would chat in the dark, sitting in the rocking chair on the porch. »
• « Sargon appointed governors in his conquered cities, and his entire empire was designed to extract wealth from all his cities and farmlands and pump it back to the capital of Akkad, which he built somewhere near present-day Baghdad. »
• « In many cases, the result was the rise of tyrannies: a government led by a man, the tyrant, who had no legal claim to power, but who had been appointed by the citizens of a polis to avoid civil conflict (tyrants were usually aristocrats, but also responded to the needs of the hoplites). »
• « To avoid civil war, the Athenians appointed Solon (638 - 558 BC), an aristocratic but just politician, to serve as tyrant and reform institutions. His most important step in restoring order was to cancel debts and eliminate debt slavery itself. »
• « However, in 508 BC, the Athenian assembly appointed a new tyrant named Cleisthenes of Athens who finally took the radical step of allowing all male citizens to vote in public affairs and to be eligible for public office. This included free but poor citizens, those who were too poor to afford arms and serve as hoplites. »
• « Despite this system of political "checks and balances", the satraps (rulers) appointed the new king from the royal family when the previous one died; sometimes they preferred to appoint weak-willed members of the royal family so that the satraps could enjoy more personal freedom. »