10 sentences with 'senators'
Example sentences and phrases with the word senators and other words derived from it.
• « The Roman equites, however, were wealthy, and benefited from the fact that senators were formally forbidden to engage in commerce from the end of the 3rd century BCE. »
• « Tiberius Gracchus ran for a second term as tribune, something no one had ever done before, and a group of senators beat him to death in 133 BCE. »
• « In Rome, senators feared his power and called on Julius Caesar's old ally Pompey to put him in his place. »
• « He used the Senate to maintain a façade of republican government, instructing senators on what actions to take; a good example is that the Senate "asked" him to remain consul for life, which he graciously accepted. »
• « Only idealistic or embittered senators really dreamed of restoring the Republic, and a coup d'état would have been rejected by the vast majority of Roman citizens. »
• « Caligula also had senators wait for him dressed as slaves, and demanded to be called "dominus et deus", meaning "master and god". »
• « His Connecticut Compromise, also known as the Great Compromise, outlined a different bicameral legislature in which the upper house, the Senate, would have equal representation for all states; each state would be represented by two senators elected by the state legislatures. Only the lower house, the House of Representatives, would have proportional representation. »
• « Thus, to avoid giving the people too much direct power, the delegates ensured that senators were elected by the state legislatures, rather than directly by the people (direct election of senators came with the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1913). »
• « As an additional safeguard, the delegates created the Electoral College, the mechanism for electing the president. Under this plan, each state has a set number of electors, which is its number of senators (two) plus its number of representatives in the House of Representatives. Critics, then as now, argue that this process prevents the direct election of the president. »