What's the difference between governor and governorship?
Governor
Definition:
(n.) One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.
(n.) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
(n.) A pilot; a steersman.
(n.) A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) Even former Florida governor Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s chief critics, said ultimately, “anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
(3) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(4) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(5) It has also been given to Sir Andrew Large, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose report on lending failures by RBS will also be released on Monday.
(6) Unfortunately for the governor, he could win both states and still face the overwhelming likelihood of failure if he doesn't take Ohio, where the poll found Obama out front 51-43.
(7) The trust was a compromise hammered out in the wake of the Hutton report, when the corporation hoped to maintain the status quo by preserving the old BBC governors.
(8) Do get yourself elected as a governor If you’re lucky, your school hasn’t yet been swallowed up by a private academy chain, and so its governing body still has ultimate power, and the headteacher is accountable to it.
(9) Donald Trump and the 'war on women': GOP confident mogul will lose the battle Read more Governor Scott Walker, who recently signed a restrictive 20-week abortion ban in Wisconsin , also opposes abortion without exceptions and has said voters agree, though polls tell a different story.
(10) Hagan’s defeat came as a shock and a heavy blow for the Democratic party in North Carolina, a purple state that now has no Democratic senator or governor for the first time in 30 years.
(11) Navalny, represented by two defence lawyers, will argue that he did not lead a criminal group to embezzle 16m roubles (£333,000) from Kirovles, a state-run timber firm, while advising the region's liberal governor, Nikita Belykh.
(12) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
(13) Oregon’s governor on Wednesday signed trailblazing legislation that will raise the minimum wage to nearly $15 in six years, and do so through a three-tiered system that has not been tried anywhere else in the country.
(14) The minutes – which will be redacted – are expected to shed light on the thinking at the highest level of the Bank during the crisis, when Mervyn (now Lord) King was governor.
(15) Governor Jerry Brown has 30 days to sign the bills into law, and his approval seems likely, as he has supported the bills throughout the process.
(16) Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, and Rick Perry, the Texas governor, are both headed to South Carolina for most of the next week.
(17) The governor told business leaders in Edinburgh that Westminster would need to agree that the UK Treasury would help to bail out Scotland in any future financial crisis and act as a guarantor for Scotland's banks.
(18) Hillary Clinton said that people who are pro-life have to change our religious beliefs,” said Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal in a statement released by the American Future project , which is backing his undeclared presidential campaign.
(19) Both initiatives, which are still being developed, have been well-received by Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who says they could help get more people from their homes to public transport hubs and has offered technical support.
(20) The governor said that “not every vaccine is created equal, and not every disease type is as great a public health threat as others”.
Governorship
Definition:
(n.) The office of a governor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Christie did raise education funding in the most recent year, but only after cutting it earlier in his governorship.
(2) Fears over violence in Jakarta as hardline Islamists protest governor’s ‘blasphemy’ Read more The governorship of the capital is a powerful position and was a stepping stone for Joko Widodo to the presidency two years ago.
(3) Perhaps he would run again in 2020, or first run for Florida’s governorship in 2018 and then return to the presidential field in 2024.
(4) People have been offered Cuba, and no doubt governorships of Bermuda have been bandied about.
(5) Among the public posts she held was a governorship of London's Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and chairman of the Electricity Consumers' Committee for the South East: in recent years her long interest in consumer rights - she was a great firer-off of letters - and her commitment to poorer families were meshing.
(6) When Ronald’s governorship ended, in 1975, and he clawed his way up the party ladder, Nancy’s political influence was well entrenched and growing.
(7) "Before his governorship there was complete insecurity in the province," said Muhammad Hassan Haqyar, an independent political analyst in Kabul, who explained that the province saw major improvements under Mangal's watch.
(8) Only last week, Richard Meddings, the finance director, was being talked up as the man to salvage the battered standing of Barclays, while StandChart's chief executive, Peter Sands, was being spoken of in connection with the governorship of the Bank of England.
(9) Her governorship was still remembered a decade later for her appointments of women and racial minorities - more than the previous two governors put together - and for wide-ranging reforms.
(10) All 435 House of Representative seats are up for grabs, and a third of the 100-member Senate, as well as 37 governorships.
(11) Ferguson was eventually impeached, then resigned before being convicted, allowing his wife, Miriam “Ma” Ferguson, to take over the governorship.
(12) But it doesn't have the governorship, which was decided in a separate ballot.
(13) With a CV that includes prominent roles with the Conservative party, Oxford University, the governorship of Hong Kong and the House of Lords, Lord Patten is no stranger to the life of intense scrutiny and brickbats faced by public figures.
(14) Another setback came with the decision by John Cherry to abandon his campaign for governorship of Michigan.
(15) Allen is understood to have been promoted from a smaller jail to take the post of deputy governor at Brixton, a position seen as a stepping stone to governorship.
(16) His appointment – one of 17 changes to Egypt's 27 governorships – is therefore seen as an attempt to shore up support for Morsi within Salafist spheres, ahead of massive planned protests against Morsi's rule on 30 June.
(17) I don’t think government should be killing people who are no danger to society, no risk to society,” Hickenlooper told the Los Angeles Times in 2014, effecting an all-but-official moratorium during his governorship.
(18) The going rate is $50m for a governorship, $500,000 for a middle-ranking bureaucrat.
(19) The anti-nuclear opposition Greens, meanwhile, celebrated winning their first state governorship after a centre-left alliance won Baden-Württemberg on Sunday from Merkel's CDU coalition with the pro-business Free Democratic party (FDP).
(20) He said the narrative of Corbett’s governorship is one of “property tax hikes, teacher and staff layoffs, and program curtailment.” “I don’t know that just going after a union contract in Philadelphia does much,” he said.