(n.) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.
(n.) The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
(n.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
(n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
(n.) Any court of justice.
(n.) The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Curia that doesn’t criticise itself, that doesn’t update itself, that doesn’t seek to improve itself is a sick body.” 2) Working too hard.
(2) Well, there’s one boss the Curia surely won’t be deifying this Christmas.
(3) As director of litigation of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, Adegbile submitted an amicus curiae, or “friend of the court”, brief to the supreme court in 2009 arguing that Abu-Jamal’s conviction was invalid because of racial discrimination in jury selection.
(4) The papal historian and former Jesuit Michael Walsh points to the pontiff's recent revamp of the powerful congregation for bishops as proof of his commitment to reforming the curia.
(5) Pope Francis has said he will do all he can to change the "introspective and Vatican-centric" nature of the Holy See, criticising the Roman curia for neglecting the wider world and its 1.2 billion Catholics.
(6) None has ever served in the Italian-dominated Curia in Rome and only one is an Italian: Giuseppe Bertello, the governor of the Vatican City State.
(7) Unlike other cardinals, he has been untarnished by the various scandals rocking the Catholic church, and is thought to want to make reform of the Curia a priority.
(8) She had reinvented herself again, as a chic and super-successful lady wit: perfect hair and maquillage, expensive jewellery, furs; a smart apartment full of Scandinavian furniture just across the road from the Vatican, handy for symposia with the curia and nobles and the Cinecittà film types whom she now numbered among her glittering friends.
(9) Now inside the Vatican, he faces a different challenge – to face down the conservatives of the curia and lock in his reforms, so that they cannot be undone once he's gone.
(10) In the fading light of Benedict's papacy, infighting and corruption within the Curia – the Vatican's central bureaucracy – had dominated amid the so-called Vatileaks affair.
(11) Francis suggested that some members of the Vatican's large bureaucracy, which was last year plunged into crisis during the "Vatileaks" scandal, were indeed courtiers; but the main problem with the curia was its self-interested nature.
(12) In an amicus curiae brief, the American Medical Association urged the Supreme Court to recognize Cruzan's constitutional right to have life-prolonging medical treatment withdrawn.
(13) Unlike some of the other cardinals, he has been untarnished by the various scandals that have convulsed the Catholic church, and is thought to want to make reform of the curia – the church's governing body – a priority.
(14) Asked about reports of a " gay lobby " inside the Roman curia, he replied: "I have still not seen anyone in the Vatican with an identity card saying they are gay."
(15) According to leaked notes of a private conversation with Catholic officials at the Latin American Conference of Religious (Clar), Francis was asked about being in charge of the Roman curia, the Chilean website Reflexión y Liberación reported .
(16) Members of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Fertility Society, American Medical Women's Association, American Psychiatric Association, and the American Society of Human Genetics have submitted an "amici curiae" brief in support of the appellees of "Webster."
(17) In 2015, he accepted an appointment as an amici curiae for the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Court (FISC), in which he will offer an outsider’s opinion on novel government data requests.
(18) The statement said they had been entrusted with drawing up a scheme "for revising the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia, Pastor Bonus ", which dates from 1988 and was drafted by Pope John Paul II.
(19) For the first time, a pope will be helped by a global panel of advisers who look certain to wrest power from the Roman Curia, the church's central bureaucracy.
(20) On Monday, Virgin America raised fresh objections to the merger and asked to file an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief to argue against allowing the merger to go forward even if the merged company was forced to give up slots at key airports.
Senate
Definition:
(n.) An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.
(n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.
(n.) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons.
(n.) In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.
(n.) The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.
(n.) In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(3) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
(4) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(5) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(6) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(7) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(8) The eight senators, including the incoming ranking member Mark Warner of Virginia, wrote to Barack Obama to request he declassify relevant intelligence on the election.
(9) Jubilant Democrats are eyeing so-called “red states” such as Georgia and Utah and expanding their ambitions to take both the Senate and House .
(10) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(11) Ben Bernanke's testimony to the Senate: from here onwards .
(12) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.
(13) Bongbong Marcos won a Senate position in 2010, the first time since his father’s demise that a family member had won a nationally elected post.
(14) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(15) April 17, 2013 The third floor isn't doing so well either: Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) Capitol police email Senate offices: Police "are responding to a suspicious envelope on the third floor of the Hart Senate Office Building."
(16) Hagan’s defeat came as a shock and a heavy blow for the Democratic party in North Carolina, a purple state that now has no Democratic senator or governor for the first time in 30 years.
(17) Senators Ron Wyden and Angus King Tweeted their support.
(18) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(19) Macfarlane’s defection would increase the number of Nationals MPs and senators from 21 to 22.
(20) The Florida senator on Wednesday signed on to legislation that would delay the implementation of the sweeping surveillance reforms passed by Congress under the USA Freedom Act.