9 sentences with 'officials'

Example sentences and phrases with the word officials and other words derived from it.

« An important social change that took place was that royal officials outside the capital began to inherit titles, and so it was the first time that there was a true noble class with its own inherited power and land. »
« While the royal officials and priests of the gods had significant power and influence during the New Kingdom, the king (now known as the pharaoh) still ruled as a living god. »
« The empire was divided into 20 satrapies (provinces), ruled by officials called satraps. »
« In addition, itinerant officials called the "eyes and ears of the king" travelled throughout the empire checking that the king's edicts were being carried out and that the conquered peoples were not being abused, and then reported back to the Persian capitals of Susa and Persepolis (both cities served as royal capitals). »
« Under Pericles, there were some 1,500 officials who managed the taxes of the league cities, ran the courts and administrative bodies, and administered the League's activities. »
« One percent of the empire's population were members of the aristocracy, those men who were allowed to participate as officials in the imperial government and their families. »
« In 376 the Huns drove a tribe of Goths from their lands in southern Russia. The Romans allowed these Goths to settle in the Balkans, but they were soon extorted by Roman officials, causing the Goths to rise up against Rome in retribution. »
« In fact, for more than a century, most Germanic "kings" were, officially, Roman officials recognised by treaty from the legal and diplomatic perspective of Constantinople. That said, the "Roman" emperors of Constantinople had many legal pretexts to consider those kings as usurpers as well, since the recognition treaties were often full of loopholes. »
« The saints had served as intermediaries to an all-powerful and remote deity in the Middle Ages, but high Church officials sought to promote the veneration of Christ and Mary as equally universal but less overwhelmingly divine figures. Mary in particular represented a positive image of womanhood that had never before existed in Christianity. »

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