In the second clause 'proconsuls' is a rhetorical plural, just as _e. g._ in Euripides ❋ Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1858)
A fictional reporter for this paper, Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan) has taken Bush administration proconsuls at their word. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2010)
In the time-honored tradition of retiring Roman proconsuls and British viceroys, he has been making valedictory tours of inspection to admire his handiwork. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The "CINCs," when they were called that, tended to become politicians, or perhaps even proconsuls in the best Roman tradition. ❋ Michael Turton (2009)
If it had produced only sportsmen and soldiers and imperial proconsuls, like some other famous schools, it would not be so celebrated. ❋ Hitchens, Christopher (2008)
After four decades in the Foreign Service, Hinton is America's closest approximation to the Roman Empire's troubleshooting proconsuls. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Romans often preferred to exercise power through friendly client regimes, rather than direct rule: until Jay Garner and L. Paul Bremer became US proconsuls in Baghdad, that was the American method too. ❋ Freedland, Jonathan (2007)
At Oxford and Cambridge a century ago, says Ferguson, "ambitious students dreamed of passing the [Indian Civil Service] exam and embarking on careers as imperial proconsuls." ❋ Unknown (2007)
Several generals who later became postwar proconsuls first cut their teeth on civil-military matters in Italy, notably Lt.Gen. Lucian K. Truscott Jr., a future military governor of Bavaria, and Gen. Mark W. Clark and Lt.Gen. Geoffrey Keyes, both of whom would serve as Allied high commissioners in Austria. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Tiberius enjoined all proconsuls, prætors, and governors of provinces to inform him with exactness of every event that took place; that Lazarus, who had been dead four whole days, would have been most strictly interrogated; and that no little curiosity would have been excited to know what had become, during that time, of his soul. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But imperialism has always been less about proconsuls than about local alliances and the training of indigenous troops, both of which allow the imperial authority to project power with minimum risk and fanfare. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Thus, retired in the midst of the world and unknown even when they appeared, they escaped the tyranny of the proconsuls and prætors and were free amid the public slavery. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But few genuine documents of the proceedings before the proconsuls and prætors who condemned the Christians to death have been delivered down to us. ❋ Unknown (2007)
America is no fool; she knows perfectly well that without her chosen proconsuls her interests in the region would be compromised, quite possibly severely. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Artificially created kings, princes and emirs, mere stooges and puppets to the Empire, chosen proctors and proconsuls paid to guard Empire's lifeblood, have been put in place to prevent you from claiming your land, your resources, your future. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The world does not want endless preemptive wars, occupations, proconsuls, and shills surrounded by crony corruption. ❋ Unknown (2006)
