By this, Plutarch probably means that as Plebeian Tribune, Metilius had the Plebeian Council, a popular assembly which only Tribunes could preside over, grant Minucius quasi-dictatorial powers.

Tribunes could use their sacrosanctity to order the use of capital punishment against any person who interfered with their duties.

Tribunes could also use their sacrosanctity as protection when physically manhandling an individual, such as when arresting someone.

Before these laws were passed, Tribunes could only interpose the sacrosanctity of their person ( intercessio ) to veto acts of the senate, assemblies, or magistrates.

It should therefore not be viewed as the final triumph of democracy over aristocracy, since, through the Tribunes, the senate could still control the Plebeian Council.

This law should not be viewed as the final triumph of democracy over aristocracy, since, through its close relations with the Plebeian Tribunes, the senate could still control the Plebeian Council.

Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the right to propose legislation before it.

* Edgar Degas — 43 paintings including The Parade, also known as Race Horses in front of the Tribunes, The Bellelli Family, The Tub, Portrait of Édouard Manet, Portraits, At the Stock Exchange, L ’ Absinthe

In 1986, the Tribune announced that celebrated film critic Gene Siskel, the Tribunes best-known writer, was no longer the paper's film critic, and that his position with the paper had shifted from being that of a full-time film critic to that of a free-lance contract writer who was to write about the film industry for the Sunday paper and also provide capsule film reviews for the paper's entertainment sections.

Besides Shakespeare, he also translated a number of other works from English into Japanese, including Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor and Bulwer-Lytton's novel Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes.

New York magazine is also a descendant of the Herald Tribune, having originally been the Herald Tribunes Sunday magazine, a livelier version of The New York Times Magazine.

Tribune also launched daily newspapers targeting urban commuters, including the Chicago Tribunes RedEye edition in 2002, followed by an investment in AM New York one year later.

The tribuni militum consulari potestate (" military tribunes with consular authority "), in English commonly also Consular Tribunes, were tribunes elected with consular power during the so-called " Conflict of the Orders " in the Roman Republic, starting in 444 BC and then continuously from 408 BC to 394 BC and again from 391 BC to 367 BC.

Tribunes of the Plebs were meant to be untouchable and their veto inalienable according to the Roman mos maiorum ( although there was a grey line as to what extent this existed in the declaration of and during martial law ).

Tribunes were required to be plebeians, and until 421 BC this was the only office open to them.

These actions violated Octavius ' right of sacrosanctity and worried Tiberius ' supporters, and so instead of moving to depose him, Tiberius commenced to use his veto on daily ceremonial rites in which Tribunes were asked if they would allow for key public buildings, for example the markets and the temples, to be opened.

The latter, however, was essentially divided into the aristocratic Senate, whose will was executed by the consuls and praetors, and the comitia centuriāta, " committee of the centuries ", whose will came to be safeguarded by the Tribunes.

The Senate then voted that Julius Caesar ( still in Gaul ) be removed from power in favor of Pompey, but the Tribunes were able to block this decree.

The Chicago Tribunes Sid Smith found the film to be " pretty lousy, despite a wealth of impressive special effects that end with an image of a completely demolished Chicago skyline.

Even after it lost its powers, the Curiate Assembly continued to be presided over by Consuls and Praetors, and was subject to obstruction by Roman Magistrates ( especially Plebeian Tribunes ) and unfavorable omens ( as were the other assemblies ).

The choice whether a collegium of Consular Tribunes or consuls were to be elected for a given year was made by senatus consultum, thereby ( according to Livy ) accounting for the periods of either office interspersed with the other.

Tribunes were men of Senatorial status appointed by the Senate.

This was followed by The Pilgrims of the Rhine ( 1834 ), The Last Days of Pompeii ( 1834 ), Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes ( 1835 ), and Harold, the Last of the Saxons ( 1848 ).

The Tribunes June 7, 1942, front page announcement that America had broken Japan's naval code was actually the potential revelation of a closely guarded military secret by the paper.

In 1994, reporter Brenda You was fired by the Tribune after free-lancing for supermarket tabloid newspapers and lending them photographs from the Tribunes photo library.

Both were replaced by Jane Hirt, who previously had been the editor of the Tribunes RedEye tabloid.

Consequently, the Tribunes Marcus Fundanius and Lucius Valerius thought it was time to propose the abolition of the Oppian law ; but they were opposed by their colleagues, Tribunes Marcus Junius Brutus and Titus Junius Brutus.

The first wind of adversity was blown by the Tampa Tribunes exposé of gambling in Fort Walton.

He was imprisoned by the Tribunes for attempting to enforce a troop levy too harshly.

However, the Patricio-Plebeian aristocracy in the senate still retained other means by which to control the Plebeian Council, in particular the closeness between the Plebeian Tribunes and the senators.

Neither Tribunes nor Aediles were technically magistrates, since they were both elected solely by the Plebeians, rather than by both the Plebeians and the Patricians.

These individuals, the so-called Consular Tribunes (" Military Tribunes with Consular powers " or tribuni militares consulari potestate ) were elected by the Century Assembly ( the assembly of soldiers ), and the senate had the power to veto any such election.

The Plebeians, by now exhausted and bitter, demanded real concessions, so the Tribunes C. Licinius Stolo and L. Sextius passed a law in 367 BC ( the " Licinio-Sextian law "), which dealt with the economic plight of the Plebeians.

Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen ( WWV 49 ) ( Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes ) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name ( 1835 ).

It was the enthusiasm of Colts fans in particular that led to the stadium being dubbed " The World's Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum " by Cooper Rollow, the Chicago Tribunes head NFL writer at the time.

Tribunes were elected by open ballot and, thus, this limited measure of democracy was corrupted by vote buying.

The trademark name is now owned by the Tribunes old rival, the Winnipeg Free Press.

During the 440's, the office was quite often replaced with the establishment of the Consular Tribunes, who were elected whenever the military needs of the state were significant enough to warrant the election of more than the two usual consuls.

The Plebeians named these new officials Plebeian Tribunes ( tribuni plebis ), a name they probably took from the military officers (" Military Tribunes " or tribuni militum ) who led them during their secession.

The regimental commanders, the Tribunes, were already converging on the Praetorium.

The line Tribunes were commanders of Cohortes and were approximately the equivalent of colonels.