1 Most skilful, too, was his audacity in nominating himself contrary to the expectation of the nobles, and in proposing colleagues on whom he could depend to carry out his ends.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLI. 2 But on Pacuvius desiring them to propose a substitute, the meeting was quieted, and after a brief pause one of the commons was nominated.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVII. 3 And the same thing happening in every case, each and all of those nominated were judged unworthy of senatorial rank.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVII. 4 Then he became alarmed, and dared not stay any longer at Nimes, so he solicited a change of residence, and, as he was in reality very influential, he was nominated to Versailles.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 44. The Vendetta. 5 It is safe with me," said the Outlaw, "so be that this thy scroll produce the sum therein nominated and set down.
6 I nominated him and was the Rhetor.
7 Their power was nominal but they had at least been able to keep the state government in the hands of native Georgians.
8 He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real.
9 It was no nominal meal that we were going to make, but a vigorous reality.
10 Even your constant little heart need not take fright at such a nominal change.
11 Though nominally included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it.
12 The city, which was owned by an oligarchy of business men, being nominally ruled by the people, a huge army of graft was necessary for the purpose of effecting the transfer of power.
13 There had come to Scully a proposition to nominate a certain rich brewer who lived upon a swell boulevard that skirted the district, and who coveted the big badge and the "honorable" of an alderman.
14 He asked me who the nominators were; and I told him.