(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”.
Pasha
Definition:
(n.) An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few nights before the evacuation, I drank hot chocolate topped with cream with a Libyan photographer friend at a city-centre cafe nicknamed The Clock after a nearby handsome clock tower, presented to the city long ago by an Ottoman pasha.
(2) The ISI was angered when its chief, General Shuja Pasha, was named in a New York lawsuit related to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
(3) Every third shop on Fevzi Pasha Boulevard, a wide shopping street that led to the smugglers’ quarter, was happy to oblige.
(4) In his affidavit, Pasha said that he had "seen enough corroborative material" to "prove" the allegations against the Washington ambassador, who was forced to resign over the issue.
(5) In recent months Pakistan's army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, and the ISI chief, General Shuja Pasha, have drawn closer to Karzai, their former rival, with a view to negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban.
(6) 7.41pm GMT Scores: 7,7,8,8 - a much-better-than-usual 30 from Rachel and Pasha.
(7) The CIA deputy director Michael Morell negotiated access to the Abbottabad during meetings in Islambad with the ISI chief, General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the Washington Post reported.
(8) The El Materi household includes a large tiger, named Pasha, living in a cage, which consumes four chickens a day.
(9) Last December the CIA station chief was forced to quit Pakistan after being publicly identified (US officials blamed an ISI leak); while Pakistani spies were angered that their chief, General Shuja Pasha, was named in a US lawsuit brought in a New York court by victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
(10) The head of the military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, had told the court in writing that he met Ijaz and had "seen enough corroborative material to prove his version of the incident".
(11) In their court written testimonies, Kayani and Pasha had pressed the judges to investigate the allegations against the former US envoy, Husain Haqqani, while the government had asked the court to drop the case and leave it to an investigation by a parliamentary committee.
(12) Last week the CIA chief, Leon Panetta, visited Islamabad to meet the Pakistani army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, and the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), General Shuja Pasha.
(13) I'm concerned about how close Pasha will be able to get.
(14) Kayani and the head of the military's spy agency, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, pressed the supreme court in affidavits to investigate the allegations against Haqqani that could lead to treason charges.
(15) Which means Rachel and Pasha are in the bottom two.
(16) In parliament, angry politicians fired questions at top generals; one even complained to the ISI chief, General Shuja Pasha, that he had been tortured by intelligence men under the regime of President Pervez Musharraf.
(17) And the ISI chief Pasha is hiring lawyers in New York to defend him against similar accusations in a lawsuit.
(18) Ijaz was a ferocious critic of Pakistan's military but then he met its spymaster, Pasha, in October in London where he handed over his evidence about the memo to him.
(19) Chelsee is paired with new boy Pasha - he sweeps her of her feet, then we're treated to a rather unfortunate camera angle as she bounces up the stairs.
(20) The evidence of General Pasha , the former chief of the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, is particularly interesting, with its account of Bin Laden's travels in Pakistan following the war on Afghanistan, and explanation of how one of his aides used his Pakistani identity card to buy a plot of land not far from the Pakistan military academy.