(n.) A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor claimed that Obama had shoved back the table and walked out of White House talks, after Cantor refused to discuss the president's proposal to raise taxes on wealthier Americans.
(2) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(3) Cantor accused Obama of an unwillingness to negotiate: The president continues to refuse to sit down with us Republicans.
(4) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor went with the "Ad?
(5) Rory Cooper, a Republican strategist who served as an aide to former House majority leader Eric Cantor, also said the rest of the field should distance itself from Trump “early and often”.
(6) John Harwood quoted Cantor as saying, if "Mr. Obama shows he is ‘serious about fixing the problem,” he said, "then we’ll see" about additional taxes.
(7) I think Paul Ryan is soon to be ‘Cantored’, as in Eric Cantor,” she said, alluding to the former Republican House leader who was knocked out of his seat in 2014 by a more conservative candidate.
(8) Though criticising Obama for a "'my way or the highway' approach", he insisted “there should be and is common ground if we would just allow ourselves to work together.” Obama himself weighed into the Republican drama on Wednesday night, insisting Cantor's exit did not spell the end of immigration reform.
(9) In other words, how many times can we expect John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Steny Hoyer, Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Pelosi , and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz all to vote the same way on a relatively divided debate?
(10) House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker John Boehner, meanwhile, have built a publicity campaign to blame Obama for the "Obamaquester."
(11) Even before news of Cantor's departure leaked, the battle to succeed him was under way, laying bare the deep fissures tearing the GOP apart.
(12) The results are in accordance with those from the simulation study, showing that Jukes and Cantor's model is as useful as a more complicated one for making inferences about molecular phylogeny of the viruses.
(13) The ML tree estimation based on Jukes and Cantor's model is also revealed to be resistant to GC content, but rather sensitive to the ratio of transitions to transversions.
(14) Cantor did add that the aid package should ultimately be offset by other savings, Reuters notes.
(15) Republicans were in the grip of an intense power battle on Wednesday as rival factions in in the House of Representatives, which the party controls, jockeyed to replace the outgoing majority leader Eric Cantor.
(16) Others with similar left-to-right rankings, but who were closer to the establishment, such as Senator John Barasso , Representative Cantor, Representative Billy Long of Missouri , and, yes, even very conservative Mitt Romney-backed Representative Steve King of Iowa often voted the opposite way.
(17) Robin Byde, an analyst at the stockbroker Cantor Fitzgerald, said: “A lot of companies are being very cautious on the outlook at the moment and I think we will see a lot more of that.
(18) Before the World Cup re-focused our attention on our incredibly diverse world, the conventional wisdom in the Beltway was that Pelosi's counterpart, the House majority leader Eric Cantor, had lost his primary because of a relatively open stance on immigration – and that any chance at meaningful reform (which Cantor actually opposed) would go down with him.
(19) But the imminent removal of Cantor from the corridors of power on Capitol Hill will undoubtedly have one more immediate impact: on the Republican leadership's deliberations over whether to allow a House vote on immigration in the narrow window between now and November's midterm elections.
(20) The crucial contest for Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives has been won by Kevin McCarthy, after a swift, decisive victory that will reassure a party establishment shaken by the sudden demise of Eric Cantor.