What's the difference between praetor and praetorian?
Praetor
Definition:
(n.) See Pretor.
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Praetorian
Definition:
(a.) See Pretorian.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anna Jefferson Brought into the CQC to stiffen its spine, media manager Anna Jefferson gained a reputation as being part of the management's praetorian guard.
(2) They are surrounded by a praetorian guard of public relations and project consultants hired with £253m of taxpayers' money .
(3) Danny Alexander is the boy who stands on George Osborne's burning deck and Vince Cable is the self-appointed captain of David Cameron's praetorian guard.
(4) The biggest transgressor seems to be the education secretary, Michael Gove, who has assembled a praetorian guard of sympathisers.
(5) As Gordon Brown gathered with his praetorian guard of New Labour inside No 10 this afternoon, there was an intense frustration – with the Liberal Democrats , with sections of his own party and, lastly, with the Queen.
(6) He set about co-opting key institutions left behind by the Americans; the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, which was soon stacked with officials from his Dawa party, and Iraq's elite special forces unit, which soon became his praetorian guard.
(7) And unlike the government's praetorian guard in the media, ministers like Francis Maude , who declined to join the attack on the union movement, understand that it may yet prove to be a dangerous opponent.
(8) A statue of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard, is pulled down after his fall.
(9) Fiona Hill, formerly Cunningham, who lost her official role in May’s praetorian guard as a result of their last major public clash with Gove, is now back by May’s side.
(10) David Bogle, chief executive of Hightown Praetorian HA , argues that social landlords could make considerable savings if more of their bank borrowings were at floating rates of interest.
(11) He just could not help himself.” Caligula told a captain in the Praetorian guard that he sounded like a girl.
(12) Supporters of David Cameron are contacting loyalists to ask them to form a “praetorian guard” to take to the airwaves in support of the prime minister immediately after the general election if the Tories fail to secure a decisive lead in parliamentary seats.
(13) In interviews, Bundy had used the language of the "sovereign citizen" movement as a rallying call, beckoning passionate support from members of the Oath Keepers, the White Mountain Militia and the Praetorian Guard.
(14) Stewart Jackson, the MP for Peterborough, wrote on Twitter : “Fallon absolutely right to use the word ‘swamped’ about ‘some’ immigration hotspots despite what teenage spin doctors at No 10 might say.” Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, told the Daily Mail: “What the Old Etonian praetorian guard around the prime minister have done shows how out of touch they are, and how in touch Michael Fallon is.
(15) Along with Ed Balls and Chuka Umunna, Alexander has formed a kind of corporate praetorian guard around Miliband to pacify the City and CBI and rein in the Labour leader’s instincts for building a new economic model in a post-crash world.
(16) But Maude insisted measures had been put in place to prevent the development of “Praetorian guards” within departments where officials were loyal only to their political bosses.
(17) An MP contacted by Cameron loyalists One well-placed MP who has been contacted by the Cameron loyalists told the Guardian: “There is an attempt to form a praetorian guard round David.
(18) Pirie's report became the central charter of the doctrine we now call Thatcherism, whose praetorian guard called itself the No Turning Back group .
(19) As Ken Clarke did in 1990 when his colleagues ummed and ahed and allowed themselves to be browbeaten by Margaret Thatcher and her praetorian guard, so Purnell has said the previously unsayable - that the prime minister must go.
(20) IRGC, the Islamic Republic’s praetorian guard, is suspicious of US military activity near Iran’s borders and appears to be sticking to a familiar posture in the Gulf that predates last year’s nuclear accord between Iran and six world powers, including the United States.