(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”.
Naik
Definition:
(n.) A chief; a leader; a Sepoy corporal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fiona MacKeown claimed Ravi Naik, the Goan home minister, and his son, Roy, were both involved and said she had been warned her own life was in danger.
(2) The four victims are named as Fazel Mohammed, 18, Naik Mohammed, 16, Mohammed Tayeb, 14 and Ahmed Shah, 12.
(3) But it was the problem pages that really sang to my soul, especially the advice from Just 17's agony aunts, Melanie McFadyean and Anita Naik , whose byline photos are still as familiar in my mind as old family pictures.
(4) The hearing was adjourned until Wednesday afternoon at the conclusion of Naik's evidence.
(5) In his first written statement Naik had described how a boy arrived on the scene and was sent to get a bed sheet to cover the body because it was naked.
(6) Under further cross-examination, Naik was also unable to explain why in a subsequent statement he had said that the body had already been moved from the water by a worker from a nearby beach shack.
(7) Sementara itu, permukaan air laut di teluk Jakarta naik setinggi 6mm setiap tahunnya .
(8) Giving evidence in the children's court in the state capital of Panaji, the officer, Police Constable Gurunath Naik, described how he received a phone call at 7.15am on 18 February 2008 from an unknown person to say that there was a dead body floating in the sea at Anjuna beach.
(9) The defence also questioned when Naik first reported back to his superiors, referring to a later statement in which the officer noted that "the body would shift in the waves because the sea was rough" and that he moved the body and only then informed his superiors.
(10) Rajay Naik, who finished a master's last summer having graduated from Warwick University the year before, was on the panel.
(11) It appears to be similar in mobility to the C variants found in Indian Khillan (CKhillan) by Naik, Sukumaran and Sanghvi (Anim.
(12) "Our client could fail or succeed in his case without ever knowing why," Naik says.
(13) However, CF's solicitor, Ravi Naik, fears that the use of the secret justice measures of the Justice and Security Act will result in an odour of suspicion for ever lingering around the affair.
(14) They all gave my daughter drugs," she said, naming both defendants and also Roy Naik.
(15) Under questioning from Menezes, Naik was unable to explain why he had made no mention of any injuries in the initial report but later reported that he had observed blood coming out of the victim's mouth.
(16) Based on predictions from normal mode calculations of a number of relevant single- and double-stranded beta-helix conformations (Naik and Krimm, 1986), it has been possible to assign the structures of GA that are present under the above conditions.
(17) "The sea was splashing the body," Naik told the court.
(18) After all, the review team included Sir Michael Barber, an adviser to the former education minister David Blunkett, and Rajay Naik, a recent graduate who describes himself as "committed to helping people from disadvantaged backgrounds make a success of their lives".
(19) Naik School for Deaf was undertaken to determine the aetiology of their deafness.
(20) When they are outside the main camp they struggle to find clinics, feeding centres and schools," said Prasant Naik, head of Save the Children in Kenya.