Sentences with word «praetorian»

In early July, the Albany Times Union reported that Joe Bruno had recently made a number of trips to NYC, using state aircraft and accompanied by his usual praetorian guard of state police.

A screen shot of Praetorian Zedlee forever guarding the world of Grim Dawn, a member of the Black Legion, is the desktop background on John's computer.

That night, John showed his mother Praetorian Zedlee, who said it «was weird but very appropriate for him [Lee].»

Augustus trimmed the size of the army, increased pay for soldiers who had chalked up over 20 years, and famously formed his own Praetorian guard.

Standout scene: After a shocking twist, two characters face the red - cloaked Praetorian Guard in an exceptional lightsaber duel.

The photos, which appear on the page of a Twitter account identified as Star Wars Stuff, also include images of Rey, Finn, Kylo Ren and the new red - garbed Praetorian guard.

Additional shots in turn give us a peek at Rey, Finn, Kylo Ren and a new Praetorian guard from the set.

Gaius Vinius is a reluctant Praetorian Guard - the Emperor's personal guard - and a man with a disastrous marriage history.

Returning from Ahch - To, Luke Skywalker is joining the Star Wars: Force Arena character roster along with R2 - D2, Supreme Leader Snoke, and the Elite Praetorian Guards.

The NPC, Praetorian Zedlee, looks like a soldier on purpose.

Corbyn's praetorian guard of young, radical left - wingers has suddenly found its voice on free movement.

The praetorian judgement will itself be judged in a time beyond our own, thrown down like a gauntlet on the smooth paving stones, a challenge to the future from the voices that will eventually fade in the wind.

Not only has he been able to reach with his message many in the Praetorian guard and in that vast establishment of slaves, freedmen, and persons of every station known as the household of Caesar, but the very fact that he is in prison for his faith has given what little preaching he can still do added power, and inspired other Christians to preach more earnestly than ever.

Equally or perhaps more dangerously for Corbyn, he'd be on the wrong side of a Unite union which backed him to the hilt and serves as a Praetorian guard but is unlikely to sit back quietly if the jobs — and union subs — of the thousands of well - paid skilled workers it represents went down the Swanee with Trident.

But what, too, of that Praetorian Guard, the Parliamentary Labour Party?

The ranks of Labour's Praetorian Guard are depleted.

And consistent with Cuomo's push to remake the airports, State Police have now also been brought into JFK airport prompting the head of the Port Authority PBA last week to tell NY1 that Cuomo was using troopers as his own «Praetorian Guard.»

Unless Momentum matches its propaganda, the crisis of fewer Labour seats may prove an opportunity for the trade union Left in the battle to be Corbyn's praetorian guard.

Alex Kazamias discussed the notion of praetorian parliamentarism as replacing the praetorian populism of the mid-twentieth century Egyptian state.

Ed Balls, a key member of Brown's Praetorian Guard, went on the media to attack those behind the coup attempts, and mocking Darling and Straw.

Last week, Cuomo made a similar announcement on Long Island, prompting the Port Authority police union to compare the state police to ancient Rome's «Praetorian Guard,» a private police force that served at the will of the Roman emperor.

Being a Parliamentary Whip is to belong to a Praetorian Guard, members of whom see themselves as a «broederbond» or by their critics as the Gestapo or Stasi.

The Praetorian Guard, like all legionnaires, shared similar insignias, mainly on their shields.

Praetorian Guard shields included wings and thunderbolts, referring to the Roman equivalent form of Jupiter and also uniquely included Scorpions, Stars and Crescents.

Her deputy, Alex Rowley, and quite a few Labour members of the Scottish parliament are pro-Corbyn, and Momentum, which sees itself as Corbyn's praetorian guard, are an increasing presence in Scotland.

He chose the color purple for their ties and hatbands because, he declared, the imperial purple was emblematic of the loyalty of the Praetorian Guard to the emperors of Rome.

Using original sources and written in a lively style is Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard (Yale).

The role of the Emperor's Praetorian guard has fascinated historians as well as many dictators, not least their role in legitimising or overthrowing their ministers.

Of all the units Maxentius had arrayed against Constantine, the toughest was the Praetorian Guard.

He had a praetorian guard of older peers, some of whom were ruthless in his defence, who felt that their man was being unfairly persecuted for what they saw as everyday breaches of social mores.

On a visit to Washington last week, French Defence Minister Florence Parly said the former colonial power had no desire to become the «Praetorian Guard of sovereign African countries».

In a sense, Rudd was acting as the Queen Bee's praetorian guard, or human shield.

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.

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.

Momentum, Jeremy Corbyn's Praetorian Guard, was created out of the remarkable insurgency that propelled him to the Labour leadership back in 2015.

«It looks like the Praetorian Guard to me,» said Paul Nunziato, president of the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association.

Momentum was not intended to be the praetorian guard of the leader, but rather the re-emergence of an organised left.

«Miliband has no praetorians, no loyalists willing to fight on his behalf when things get tough.

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.

Figures including: Porg, Captain Phasma, Kylo Ren, Rey, Finn, Luke Skywalker, BB - 8, Poe Dameron, Chewbacca, Supreme Leader Snoke, BB - 9E, and Praetorian Guard 1 — IMAX Star Wars: The Last Jedi T - shirt

Rey and Kylo Ren take on Snoke's Praetorian Guards in the epic lightsaber battle from «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» — available on digital Mar. 13 and Blu - ray Mar. 27.

Meanwhile, that First Order Stormtrooper with the plethora of weapons will only be available on Amazon, and there's a different version of the Praetorian Guard that you can only get there too.

Star Wars Elite Series Die Cast Action Figures inspired by Star Wars: The Last Jedi (characters included: Kylo Ren (unmasked), Rey, Luke Skywalker, First Order Judicial Stormtrooper, Praetorian Guard, R2 - D2).

The first wave includes Kylo Ren, Luke Skywalker, Rey, R2 - D2, First Order Judicial Stormtrooper (Executioner), Praetorian Guard, Chewbacca (with Porgs), Finn, Poe Dameron, Rose Tico (with BB - 8), C - 3PO, Captain Phasma and Supreme Leader Snoke.

The first wave of Black Series figures will include Luke Skywalker, as seen at the end of The Force Awakens, Rey in her new training gear, Resistance mechanic Rose Tico, Finn in First Order Officer uniform, Kylo Ren, a Praetorian Guard, Poe Dameron, General Leia Organa and Maz Kanata.

I love the samurai influences of Snoke's Praetorian Guard and a final showdown borrowed from Sanjuro and shot like a Sergio Leone standoff against an impossible backdrop of machines of war.