7 sentences with 'governor'
Example sentences and phrases with the word governor and other words derived from it.
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• « Heraclius was originally a governor who returned from his post in Africa to take the throne from a rival named Phocas in the midst of a Persian invasion. »
• « The most famous historical example of the overlapping legal systems of the Empire was the biblical trial of Jesus before the Roman governor Pontius Pilate. »
• « His followers regarded Mithridates as a great liberator from Roman corruption (a Roman governor was made to swallow molten gold to symbolise the just punishment of Roman greed). »
• « The beginning of permanent contact between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe came under the auspices of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 - 1460), governor of Portugal's southernmost province. »
• « However, most Roman subjects were just that: subjects, not citizens. In the provinces they were subject to the goodwill of the Roman governor, who might well seek opportunities to extract provincial wealth for his own benefit. »
• « In each satrapy (province), the satrap was the political governor, advised and complemented by a military general who reported directly to the king; in this way, the two most powerful leaders in each satrapy could keep an eye on each other. »
• « Under the leadership of the warrior chieftain Clovis (r. 481/482 - 511), the various Frankish tribes united, giving them the military strength to depose the last Roman governor in Gaul, drive the Visigoths into Spain, absorb the territory of another barbarian group known as the Burgundians, and eventually conquer most of Gaul. »
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