The prelate at once applied to England for help, and in a short time the whole country had organized secret juntas in order to throw off the French yoke.
There are other instances at this time of the assemblage of Juntas of architects, of which one or two may properly be mentioned here; one of these was in reference to the Cimborio of the cathedral at Zaragoza which fell in A.
In spite of this rebuke, the episcopal juntas continued to exercise an irregular and irresponsible jurisdiction, until the sufferers sought from the Holy See the protection denied to them at home.
While the Inquisition was thus suspended, the more zealous bishops replaced it with so-called Juntas de fe, based on the same principles, with secrecy of procedure and exercising jurisdiction in the external as well as internal forum.
While it gratified the zealots, who were clamoring for the resurrection of the Inquisition, it displeased Fernando, who caused the Audiencia to be notified that the Government recognized no such tribunals as the juntas de fe.
The counter-proclamations of Spanish juntas were more prolix and equally arrogant, but one of them reveals the secret of national strength when it asserts that "a whole people is more powerful than disciplined armies".
Roxas; the Compromisarios or middle classes, divided into juntas or local councils.
Everywhere juntas provinciales (provincial assemblies) were organized against the intruder; they allied themselves with England and declared that Fernando VII was the legitimate King of Spain and that the nation was at war with France.
But at the same time an English boat sent by Admiral Cochrane arrived, and announced to the Venezuelan authorities the establishment of the juntas and the organization of resistance to the French.
The customary juntas of two members each from the Suprema and the Council of Castile or of Aragon was at best a clumsy device, onerous on the Councils and usually leading only to procrastination.
In these matters they were responsible to the governor, viceroy, or superintendent, and to the various juntas reales and committees, of which at least one oidor was always a member.
Your father says he does not think anything will be done, until the present Ministry are kicked out here; and Wellington hangs the principal members of all the Juntas in Portugal, and all that he can get at, in Spain.
The people are patriots, but what can they do when the Juntas keep the arms the English have sent us in their magazines, and divide the money among themselves?
The result was the expulsion of four of the leading Democrats from the Junta, after which the provinces were directed to form Juntas of their own.
Delegates from the juntas met annually to consider the common interests of the three provinces.
The municipalities sent deputies to the juntas or parliaments of each province.
One lawyer (letrado) was present at the juntas for consultation on the points of law, but he was not allowed to vote.
Unless countersigned by the juntas the decrees of Cortes and Spanish legislation or royal orders had no force in the Provinces.
Lisbon and Oporto were both the seats of juntas of provisional government, and both assembled Cortes to take into consideration the framing of a new constitution, and the reformation of ancient abuses.
The next three months were spent almost entirely in establishing provisional juntas in the different capitals.
Provisional juntas were rapidly organized in the various provinces of the kingdom of Spain and affairs administered in the name of Ferdinand VII.
Lopez was emboldened by the support which the Cuban juntas promised him, but he did not find all of the men who had accompanied him on the Cardenas expedition as confident as he was himself.
The insurrection was eagerly supported by the "Juntas of the Laborers.
There he found that various Cuban Juntashad been formed in the United States, and that a well-organized campaign for the annexation of Cuba was being pushed.
Revolutionary Juntas were formed in almost all of the provinces, and in a number of the most important cities, and in the course of a few days the insurgents were in control of a considerable part of the Kingdom.
These provisional Juntas proceeded to act with much vigour.
Representing only the Santiago aristocracy, there was no certainty that its orders would be respected in the provinces, or that independent juntas would not be set up in other cities.
In rapid succession Buenos Aires, northern New Granada, Caracas, and Santiago installed revolutionary juntasin place of the Spanish governors.
The government officials, with their friends and hangers-on, saw that their interests would best be served by the recognition of the revolutionary juntas which had assumed the ad interim direction of affairs in Spain.
There have been any quantity sent out by England for your use; but instead of being served out, the Juntas keep them all hidden up in magazines.
Large armies had again been raised, and the same confident ideas, the same jealousy between generals, and the same quarrels between the Juntas had been prevalent.
Ambitious men everywhere laid hold of the local authority, and irresponsible juntas arose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "juntas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
