(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”.
Gubernatorial
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a governor, or to government.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conway has a long list of success stories when it comes to this kind of retooling, from helping GOP lawmakers change the way they talk about rape to helping Trump’s running mate Mike Pence polish his personality in ways that “kept him comfortable in his own skin” ahead of a gubernatorial reelection campaign, as Pence’s communications director recently told TPM .
(2) Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general who was beaten in a gubernatorial race by the Democratic fundraiser Terry McAuliffe and now runs the Senate Conservatives Fund, disagreed with Chaffetz about the desirability of another Romney run.
(3) It could also help sway pivotal senate and gubernatorial elections in the region, many of which have come down to a few hundred votes over the past decade and may do again as Republicans fight to regain control of the Senate next year.
(4) The plan, according to the indictments, was meant to punish the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, Mark Sokolich, for refusing to endorse Christie during his most recent gubernatorial run.
(5) Meanwhile, Missouri's Democratic governor Jay Nixon looks safe in his gubernatorial re-election bid: Democratic incumbent Jay Nixon leads Republican challenger Dave Spence 53%-45%.
(6) In Wisconsin, the Milwaukee mayor, Tom Barrett, won the Democratic primary in the state's gubernatorial recall election, confirming him to go up against the Republican governor, Scott Walker, in June.
(7) Luzhkov had said he backs the return of direct gubernatorial elections, abolished by Putin in 2004.
(8) Still, only two years ago, Democrats reeled from a major setback when their high-profile gubernatorial candidate, Wendy Davis, was thrashed by Greg Abbott, losing by more than 20 points and setting the state legislature down an even more conservative path.
(9) November will also see elections for all 435 seats of the House of Representatives, where Republicans already have a strong majority, as well as 46 elections in state legislatures and 36 state gubernatorial elections.
(10) Aides to both leaders say an election was more democratic than a gubernatorial appointment.
(11) With nearly all votes counted Walker had nearly 53% versus 46% for his Democratic challenger, Tom Barrett, widening the lead from when the two faced off in 2010's gubernatorial election.
(12) This is an alternative to gubernatorial proficiency testing.
(13) Democrats had hoped Crist would give the party its first gubernatorial win in Florida in 20 years and put the state in friendly territory for the White House race.
(14) It says nothing of the Senate races that are not closely contested (in West Virginia , Republican Shelley Moore Capito, daughter of former governor Arch Moore, is likely to fill the seat vacated by retiring Democrat Jay Rockefeller, whose uncle Nelson was vice-president and New York governor) and the gubernatorial races (Georgia Democrat Jason Carter, grandson of former president Jimmy; New York Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo, son of governor Mario; California Democratic governor Jerry Brown, son of former governor Pat).
(15) Mizeur, a former state legislator and gubernatorial candidate, wrote on her Facebook page : “If the DNC doesn’t reverse its decision to give the Sanders campaign access to its voter file data again, I am ready to resign my post as a Democratic National Committeewoman from Maryland in protest.
(16) Rand Paul appeared to side with Bevin, the Republican nominee for the Kentucky gubernatorial race, and said in a radio interview that Davis’s protest is “part of the American way”.
(17) The insurgency’s impact on the election Nigeria’s presidential, parliamentary and state gubernatorial and assembly elections, scheduled for next month, are likely to be more contentious than usual.
(18) They learned from their mistakes in 2012.” In 30 years of observing North Carolina politics I’ve never seen the Republicans with such a sophisticated ground game But the advances it made in the mechanics of data-driven electioneering is just one part of a GOP success story that saw the party sweep to victory in eight out of nine key Senate races, regain control of the upper chamber, triumph in crucial gubernatorial contests and expand its control over the House of Representatives.
(19) Large-scale teacher protests are in prospect for Philadelphia after the city’s school board canceled a teachers’ union contract , an unprecedented move that could have ramifications for the upcoming gubernatorial election.
(20) The new governor has made it clear that he is watching lenders closely and they will be expected to respond to the raising of the gubernatorial eyebrows.