Commentators also observed a lack of uniformity in the attitudes and in the decisions of the judges who presided over the city's criminal courts.
A political organization was a churning mix of ambition and resentment and inertia over which leaders presided only by constant effort.
Both areas had a history of economic decline presided over by inept and corrupt government.
These courts are presided over by a three-judge panel.
This involved the appointment of judges who personally presided over the annual distribution of plots and recorded the names of the beneficiaries.
His contention that the nation with the strongest labour force ' presided ' over world civilisation clearly implied a struggle with winners and losers.
It might be presided over by a king, a judge, or a protector.
These conscripts were to be chosen by public lotteries presided over by a municipal recruitment committee, headed by each municipal president.