Thus a mixed administration came into being: part of the empire was governed by new feudal princes, and another part split up into provinces and prefectures and placed directly under the central power through its officials.
With the growing militarization of Ch'in, greater importance was assigned to the provinces, and the prefectures were made subordinate to them.
The commerce brought profit not only to the caravan traders, most of whom were probably foreigners, but to the officials in the provinces and prefectures through which the routes passed.
In the provinces, the armies of the military prefectures gradually lost their importance when wars became longer and militiamen proved insufficient.
It ordered the provincial offices to have the prefecturesmake monthly reports on their revenue and expenditure.
Each province is subdivided into prefectures ruled by prefects, and each prefecture into districts ruled by a district magistrate, Chih-hsien, the official through whom the people in general receive the orders of the government.
Two or more prefectures are united into a tao or circuit, the official at the head of which is called a Taot'ai.
In February 1910 decrees appeared approving schemes drawn up by the Commission for Constitutional Reforms, providing for local government in prefectures and departments and for the reform of the judiciary.
New Rome divided into four parts, each consisting of thirteen prefectures i.
The four prefectures were subdivided into thirteen dioceses, each governed by a vice-prefect named vicarius, the total number of dioceses being fifty-two.
Those returned by the cities and prefectures remain members for a period of seven years.
Technical schools of lower grades are maintained by prefectures and urban bodies, and they receive grants in aid from national funds.
As regards secondary education, it is compulsory for one school to be established in each of the forty-seven prefectures into which Japan is divided.
The three urban prefectures are Tokyo, Osaka and Kioto, and the urban and rural districts are distinguished according to the number of houses they contain.
Roads connecting the head offices of cities and prefectureswith their branch offices.
The above 4 prefectures form the island of Shikoku.
Many came from other prefectures also, for Saigo's reputation as the chief agent in bringing about the restoration was immense, and his simple, great personality commanded universal love and respect.
By the close of the fourth century there were one hundred and twenty provinces, grouped into fourteen dioceses, which made up the four prefectures of Gaul, Italy, Illyricum and the Orient.
The salary of the four chief prefectures was probably higher still.
This division of the empire into four prefectures was carried out under Constans and Constantius.
When Constantius became sole emperor in 351, he retained the three prefectures of Constans, and his own previous dominions constituted the fourth, that of the Orient.
In the third century the latter was borne by all the imperial procurators, while the former was reserved for the higher prefectures (apart from the praetorian), the chief officials of the treasury and the imperial secretaries.
The agriculture of all the prefectures through which I now journeyed south to Tokyo suffer from the cold temperature of the sea.
The prefectures north of Tokyo facing the Pacific are the chief victims of famine, for near Sendai the warm current from the south turns off towards America.
In the lower half of the prefecture we are in the great Kwanto plain, the prefectures in which are most conveniently surveyed from Tokyo.
Five such cases of drowning are reported from three prefectures on the day I write this.
I have had to rely, therefore, on official and private investigations made in various prefectures and villages, and I give a selection for what they are worth.
Some of the "Kobe beef" comes from the prefectures of Hiroshima and Okayama.
My route lay through the prefectures of Saitama and Gumma.
This is a system peculiar to Nagano, which is a progressive prefecture vying with other prefectures to increase the percentage of school attendance.
Some prefectures had forbidden the Bon dance and had supplied nothing in its place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prefectures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
