4 sentences with 'consuls'

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


« Each year, the assembly elected two executives called consuls to oversee the laws and ensure their enforcement. »
« Under the consuls was the Senate, essentially a large body of aristocratic administrators, appointed for life, who controlled the finances of the state. »
« In ancient Rome, the bodyguards of the Roman consuls wore "fascii" as a badge of authority over war, peace, law and death, and this symbolism appealed to Italian fascists. »
« The consuls had almost unlimited power, known as imperium, including the right to inflict the death penalty on lawbreakers, and were preceded everywhere by twelve bodyguards called lictors. »

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