What's the difference between mayor and mayoralty?
Mayor
Definition:
(n.) The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(3) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(4) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(5) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
(6) The lesson, spelled out by Oak Creek's mayor, Steve Saffidi, was that it shouldn't have taken a tragedy for Sikhs, or anyone else, to find acceptance.
(7) In addition, Mayor Fitzgerald was one of 12 children, only three of whom survived to adulthood, an experience that marked his career by a particular commitment to bringing medical access for all.
(8) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(9) (A later mayor rose to prominence as one of her prosecutors: Rudy Giuliani.)
(10) De Blasio's first significant act as mayor was to challenge a development plan for the iconic Domino's Sugar factory in Brooklyn – a typical late-Bloomberg, large-scale building project.
(11) LU, a branch of the London mayor's Transport for London authority, claims that Aslef is seeking triple-time pay and an extra day off for members working on Boxing Day.
(12) Then they look at a poll and assume that a poll is a proxy for what is really going on.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest David Cameron and Crosby during the London mayoral campaign in 2012.
(13) David Beckham's plan to bring a Major League Soccer franchise to Miami looks to be on life support after the city's mayor, Tomás Regalado, previously a key ally in the project, said no to the construction of a stadium at a prime waterfront site.
(14) He added: “From what we’ve seen so far, Londoners can be forgiven for wondering if Zac will be a mayor who works to bring London’s diverse communities together or one who will drive them apart.” Others evince real surprise over Goldsmith’s stance.
(15) His boss, the Molenbeek mayor Françoise Schepmans, said that the seven people arrested seemed to suggest a network based in Brussels connected with the Paris attacks.
(16) That is the strategy I’m pursuing in Nehalem, Oregon , where I recently ran for mayor.
(17) But to endure a cut of £100m just after becoming the mayor and a further £23m this year has been daunting.
(18) The mayor needs to be in parliament to challenge other contenders for the party's leadership, such as George Osborne and Theresa May.
(19) He wasn't the first to employ such scare tactics: in late October, the mayor of the Urals city of Izhevsk was caught on video telling veterans that their government allowances would be raised if United Russia received a high percentage of the vote.
(20) The spectacle earlier this year of London's mayor, Boris Johnson , rushing ahead to buy water cannon for use in the capital before the home secretary had authorised the use of such equipment, is hardly helpful.
Mayoralty
Definition:
(n.) The office, or the term of office, of a mayor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Luciana Berger , the shadow minister for mental health, has said she intends to run for mayor of the Liverpool city region, becoming the second Labour frontbencher this month to launch a bid for a northern English mayoralty.
(2) It has previously been reported that Brazilian prosecutors believe Maluf took bribes and construction kickbacks amounting to US$344m during his mayoralty between 1993 and 1996.
(3) But if Johnson's monuments suffer from the columnist's love of making a splash, his mayoralty has been more impressive when it comes to things that are barely visible, or about taking stuff away rather than adding it.
(4) It's no surprise, then, that displays of contrition over his defeat by Boris Johnson in 2008 have not been a feature of the start of his campaign to take back the mayoralty in 2012.
(5) The whole purpose of a mayoralty is, after all, to personalise power and responsibility.
(6) The Tories look set to lose the London mayoralty to Labour’s Sadiq Khan, which is a disappointment rather than a surprise.
(7) The consequence was that with support and not much opposition, he got a lot done; the congestion charge, the significant upgrade of the London Underground, equality initiatives inside and outside City Hall, the initial shaping of the new entity that was the mayoralty.
(8) YouGov polling widened Johnson's lead against Ken Livingstone to eight percentage points, but the results were overshadowed by the decision of his campaign team to switch the account name @MayorofLondon to @BorisJohnson , transferring at a stroke the 253,144 followers tracking the activities of the London mayoralty to Johnson's campaign.
(9) We’re here in Southwark Cathedral because I want to start my mayoralty as I intend to go on.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Andy Burnham vows to change politics after winning Manchester mayoralty – video ‘We are living through something of a crisis in politics right now, with Brexit and everything that involves,” he said.
(11) Livingstone, who won the first elected mayoralty in 2000, modelled himself on the big city American mayors, visionaries such as Fiorello La Guardia and Ed Koch in New York.
(12) The mayoralty that the Front National won outright last week was Henin-Beaumont , a working-class former mining area in the Pas-de-Calais.
(13) My colleague Tim Adams, who was writing an article on better potential candidates for the London mayoralty, stood beside me, as we watched the quilted, coiffed godfather of punk, and gawped.
(14) If that strategy seems hopelessly misplaced and outdated, remember that it is only 15 years since the last successful socialist revolution in Britain, Ken Livingstone’s seizure of the London mayoralty .
(15) You certainly shouldn’t be on Labour’s national executive.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Mann calls Ken Livingstone a ‘Nazi apologist’ It is the second time Livingstone has been suspended from Labour; the first being when he put himself forward as an independent candidate for the London mayoralty in 2000.
(16) It was pointed out by allies that it would be feasible for Johnson to be an MP from May 2015 to the end of his mayoralty in spring 2016, since Ken Livingstone did something similar, and cabinet ministers hold down two jobs as a constituency MP and departmental minister.
(17) In a move widely seen as spurred by the success of the London mayoralty, referendums on whether to have an elected mayor are taking place in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Sheffield and Wakefield.
(18) He doesn't really do the nuts and bolts of the mayoralty.
(19) Which brings me on to the looming question of the London mayoralty.
(20) The 2012 election will be the first election held under a Tory-led administration since the mayoralty began under Livingstone in 2000.