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Qué (quién) es proconsul - definición


proconsul         
[pr??'k?ns(?)l]
¦ noun
1. a governor of a province in ancient Rome.
2. a governor or deputy consul of a modern colony.
Derivatives
proconsular adjective
proconsulate noun
proconsulship noun
Origin
from L. pro consule '(one acting) for the consul'.
Proconsul         
·noun An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.
Proconsul         
A proconsul was an official of ancient Rome who acted on behalf of a consul. A proconsul was typically a former consul.

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Proconsul
A proconsul was an official of ancient Rome who acted on behalf of a consul. A proconsul was typically a former consul.
Ejemplos de uso de proconsul
1. David Gilmour‘s biography of Lord Curzon began to appear on State Department desks, as Paul Bremer modelled himself on a particularly incompetent Edwardian proconsul.
2. Paul Bremer, the US proconsul who brought all this about, has been accused of all sorts of failings, only some of which were his fault.
3. Bush‘s cavalier rejection of the provisional Iraqi government created immediately after the U.S.–led invasion –– in favor of installing proconsul L.
4. Divide and rule is the deadly logic of colonial rule – and signs that the US is planning an exit strategy coupled with a long–term presence is evident in the new Iraqi constitution, pushed through by US proconsul Zalmay Khalilzad.
5. Paul Bremer‘s just–published book, "My Year in Iraq," recounts one delay after another in getting a transitional government under way and an interim constitution written during his term there as American proconsul in 2003 and 2004.