(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.
Provost
Definition:
(n.) A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches.
(n.) The keeper of a prison.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was very careful that his many other activities did not interfere with his duties as provost, whether it was his role in the Lords or whether it was as the author of the committee on the future of broadcasting report, always known as the Annan Report, (published in 1977).
(2) Professor Malcolm Grant, chair The president and provost of University College London, he is described by a colleague as having "a brain the size of a planet and is a natural leader – clear and very challenging of assumptions, but in a constructive way – who understands how to take organisations forward.
(3) Photograph: Claire Provost She compares the companies that have moved into her area to the Spanish conquistadors who invaded America.
(4) Literary Scholar and Provost, Worcester College, University of Oxford.
(5) Briggs would return to Worcester as the college’s provost on leaving Sussex in 1976, retiring in 1991.
(6) Seven kilometres out into the azure waters of the Adriatic, the Provost – the head of a top-secret organisation called the Cornsortium, which specialised in contriving idiotic plotlines – stood at the prow of his 237m yacht, the Mendacium.
(7) It was in 2001, during the storm over the Quality Assurance Agency, when I realised that the five chiefs (aka vice-chancellors, rector, director and provost) had captured all the alphabet agencies, including not just the QAA but also the RAE (research assessment exercise), the HEFCs (the higher education funding councils), the SLC (the Student Loans Company), the Hesa (Higher Education Statistics Agency) and now Offa.
(8) She was born in Ayrshire in 1970 and grew up near Irvine with parents who rarely discussed politics, and who were politicised by their daughter (her mother is now an SNP councillor and provost of North Ayrshire) rather than the other way around.
(9) In 2000, she became the first woman appointed to run any English cathedral when she was promoted to provost of Leicester Cathedral, a small, unfashionable place.
(10) Army police and provosts (military personnel responsible for security and detention) were excluded last November after the appeal court said it was "impossible to avoid the conclusion that IHAT lacks the requisite independence".
(11) We need to support them.” But Prof Michael Arthur, president and provost of University College London (UCL), which has 4,500 EU students who make up 12% of the student body, fears his university – in common with others – will lose a significant proportion of EU undergraduates if Britain votes to leave Europe on 23 June.
(12) As provost of King's, Annan made an effort to attract boys from the maintained grammar schools.
(13) Children get to sit in a Jet Provost cockpit and soar through the sky in a dogfight in the 4D cinema (£4).
(14) The Gi alpha homolog could not be detected in head membranes by Western blotting, consistent with the negligible levels of expression observed for Gi alpha on Northern blots of head mRNA (Provost et al., 1988).
(15) Asa Briggs obituary Read more His academic career took him far and wide, but it was at Worcester College, Oxford, as fellow and later provost, that he felt the strongest sense of place.
(16) Career: Educated at Queen's School, Chester; St Hilda's College, Oxford; also at St John's College, Nottingham and the Open University; taught in India 1977-1979; youth worker at Shrewsbury House, Liverpool, 1979; ordained as a deaconess in 1982, worked at St Matthew and St James, Mossley Hill; chaplain at Clare College, Cambridge, 1985-90 (became a deacon in 1987); chaplain at Gloucester Cathedral, 1990-94; ordained as a priest in 1994; canon pastor and then also vice provost, Coventry Cathedral, 1994-2000; provost (the first woman provost in the Church of England) then dean of Leicester 2000–12; member of the General Synod, 2003-12; dean of York 2012-present.
(17) Cologne Cathedral provost Norbert Feldhoff, told n-tv that shutting down the lights was an attempt to make the Pegida demonstrators think twice about their protest.
(18) The flight crew was met on the tarmac by a delegation which included Moore, deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon and Edinburgh's lord provost George Grubb.
(19) Michael Arthur, provost of University College London and a member of the UK's Medical Research Council,and professor David Nutt, the government's former drug advisor who now runs neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College, also voiced their concerns over the impact of a Pfizer takeover on UK science research.
(20) Thank you very much for giving me the thanks through … your appearance and all the things you have said.” The degree presented to Yunupingu is the highest given by the university and is awarded “infrequently”, university provost Margaret Sheil said.