Significados de chief magistracy en inglés

The mayor replaced the bailiffs as the chief magistracy.

Heraclitus refused the chief magistracy of Ephesus that he might have leisure to explore the depths of his own nature.

Never has any man entered upon the chief magistracy of a country under such appalling predictions of ruin and woe!

Unlike the French Consulate, the chief magistracy in the new Cisalpine Constitution might be prolonged beyond the term of ten years.

The honors belonging to the chief magistracy are objects of no common solicitude to a few, who compose a fourth denomination.

How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?

General Santa Anna, himself a fugitive, is believed to be on the point of resigning the chief magistracy, and escaping to neutral Guatemala.

The chief magistracy was the strategia (tenable every second year), which combined with an unrestricted command in the field a large measure of civil authority.

Your reelection to the Chief Magistracy of the United States gives us sincere pleasure.

This letter, Lincoln had often told his friends, gave him ultimately the Chief Magistracy of the nation.

But surely your predecessors in the Chief Magistracy, were men such as never before successively wielded power in any State.

Your predecessors descended from the Chief Magistracy to enjoy, in repose and tranquillity, honors even greater than those which belonged to that eminent station.

Mr. Arthur was called to the chair of the Chief Magistracy of the nation by a tragedy which cast its shadow over the entire Government.