He was speaking of Disraeli's discovery, that the great colonial Governorships should go to those who had been 'born in the purple' or had married into it.
I was in London,' Sir George mentioned, 'at the break between my two Governorshipsof South Africa.
He also confirmed the ordinance, passed a short time previously, that those who had held office in the city should not be allotted to foreign governorships before five years had passed.
To these Caesar added three new ones by the erection of the two new governorships of Lugdunese Gaul and Belgica(79) and by constituting Illyricum a province by itself.
As according to Caesar's ordinance annually sixteen propraetors and two proconsuls divided the governorships among them, and the latter remained two years in office (p.
Attempt to Shorten Caesar's Governorship While in this way the shortening of Caesar's governorship was only aimed at indirectly, the regulations issued at the same time as to the governorships sought the same object directly.
The consul Marcus Marcellus introduced a proposal to give the two provinces hitherto administered by the proconsul Gaius Caesar from the 1st March 705 to the two consulars who were to be provided with governorships for that year.
Caesar's arrangements for the provincial governorships had assigned Macedonia to Antony and Syria to Dolabella, who became Antony's colleague in the consulate at Caesar's death.
A second law provided that in future provincial governorships should not be filled by the city magistrates just completing their term of office but by those whose terms had expired five years previously.
Moreover they removed the senators who had received from him governorships over the provinces and resolved that others should be sent in their place.
They had been honored by the former Caesar for a very long time and as they had been in office and holding governorships most of the period they had many enemies.
The majority of them were out of town and some even heldgovernorships over provinces.
But when some began to be displeased at the killing of Caesar, they withdrew, pretending to be in haste to reach the governorships abroad to which they had been appointed.
Let us not mistake reformed councils, more lawcourts and even governorships for real freedom or power.
And so we in our turn may receive even Governorships which the real rulers no longer require or which they cannot retain with safety for their material interest--the political and material hold on India.
Thus arose the four senatorial governorships of Asia, Bithynia and Pontus, Cyprus, Crete and Cyrene.
The governorships are: Cairo; Alexandria, which includes an area of 70 sq.
For purposes of local government the chief towns constitute governorships (moafzas), the rest of the country being divided into mudirias or provinces.
He had himself served under the governor of Egypt, Takin, whose son he displaced, in various capacities, and had afterwards held various governorships in Syria.
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