What is "councilors"

Usage examples of "councilors".

Today, not only are the eunuchs the attendants and guardians of the wives and concubines, they are also councilors to the Great King, ministers of state and even, sometimes, generals and satraps.

Magadha, the chief councilor does the actual work of administering the country, aided by some thirty councilors, many of them hereditary and most of them incompetent.

He had thousands of problems to deal with daily, most of which he fed to his selected councilors and their assistants, but he was taking a personal interest in the response to a supernova explosion near four relatively loyal Imperial worlds, including beautiful and productive Sarossa.

Emperor actually was, how much control he exerted or wished to exert over his councilors and ministers.

He knew something about most of the top thirty ministers and their councilors in the palace, and a great deal about the Commission of Public Safety, that deep reservoir of career Greys and old-family elites.

I have seen of powerful people, from councilors in my homeland, even my own brother, to queens here, to Darken Rahl, they will view you as a lone obstacle in their way.

Those councilors who had collaborated were allowed to retain their position.

The councilors should already be doing that, but I must get there to make sure the extent of the threat is known, to make sure all of the Midlands join together in this.

At the far end was the semicircular dais where the councilors sat, behind an elaborate, curved desk.

She planned to be sitting in the First Chair as she watched all the councilors arrive.

People other than councilors, ambassadors, staff, and nobility rarely saw the Mother Confessor up close, and when they did they mostly stared at her long hair.

He kept his gaze fixed on the floor as the king and his councilors swept out, imagining how differently this little drama would have played out if Erius had found a living girl child here.

Companions, even though they were touted by all as a closely bound elite, the future generals and councilors of a future king.

To hock her jewels, have an argument ready for her councilors, and at the same time to follow the call of her DNA.

Here councilors, nobles, men and women high in the Empire, drew aside for him.