(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.
Rector
Definition:
(n.) A ruler or governor.
(n.) A clergyman who has the charge and cure of a parish, and has the tithes, etc.; the clergyman of a parish where the tithes are not impropriate. See the Note under Vicar.
(n.) A clergyman in charge of a parish.
(n.) The head master of a public school.
(n.) The chief elective officer of some universities, as in France and Scotland; sometimes, the head of a college; as, the Rector of Exeter College, or of Lincoln College, at Oxford.
(n.) The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Sombat Thamrongthanyawong, a core PDRC leader and former rector of the National Institute of Development Association, told the Guardian: "The PDRC never use any violent means.
(2) Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod said in a statement that its vice-rector for innovation, Kendrick White, had been relieved of his duties as part of a “restructuring of the management system”.
(3) Father Philip North, who is team rector at the parish of Old St Pancras in north London, said that local reservations over his appointment — and the divisions exacerbated by last month's General Synod vote against female bishops — meant it would be impossible for him to be "a focus for unity" as bishop of Whitby.
(4) A poem to the vaccine was written by Andres Bello, the first rector of the University of Chile, then in Venezuela (1804).
(5) The rector, Kathleen Adams-Shepherd, told the congregation that she had been at the firehouse close to Sandy Hook elementary waiting and praying with families.
(6) She unveiled road signs and streets named after her husband, and was even a candidate in 1977 to be rector of Glasgow University.
(7) NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said he was humbled and honoured after Glasgow University students voted overwhelmingly for him to serve as their rector for the next three years.
(8) But Professor Massimo Egidi, an economist and rector of LUISS Guido Carli, a private university in Rome, dismissed a link between the results and Italy's 43% youth unemployment rate for under 24-year-olds.
(9) "This is a great honour and an even bigger challenge," said the author of The Choir , A Village Affair and The Rector's Wife .
(10) The Rev John Ubel, rector of the Catholic cathedral that overlooks downtown St Paul, said the day would prove to have been a good one if it brought people of different backgrounds together and gave them a “tiny measure of peace”.
(11) Formerly head, London College of Communication and Deputy Rector, University of the Arts, London.
(12) The life of Paul de Sorbait (1624-1691), who was Professor of Medicine, Dean of the Medical School, and Rector Magnificus at Vienna University, is reviewed on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of his death.
(13) Yet it was on him that Orbán’s official spokesman focused while scrambling to explain recent mass protests supporting Budapest’s Central European University (CEU) – a small elite institution of higher learning of which Ignatieff is rector, and which could, theoretically, be forced to close because of a new higher education law.
(14) Charles Kennedy, the outgoing rector and former Lib Dem leader, said: "It has been a pleasure and a privilege to serve the students of the University of Glasgow for the past six years.
(15) Most beta-emitting radionuclides are produced in nuclear rectors via neutron capture reactions; however, a few are produced in charged-particle accelerators.
(16) The social mobility "trackers" will most probably lead to the blaming of schools in poor areas, as they try to achieve those five A to Cs for disadvantaged kids; schools will learn to game the system, resulting in grade inflation; there will be an annual ding-dong with rectors from Oxford and Cambridge as it emerges that they've managed in yet another year not to find a single black person clever enough to study history.
(17) As a medical student, Burns voted for Reid – who was a SNP supporter in later life – to become rector of the University of Glasgow, and vividly recalls his rectorial address, which was printed in full in the New York Times .
(18) Rosemary Rimmer-Clay, who was a 19-year-old student at Dundee University in 1975 at a time when he was rector of the university, said that a man who she had once viewed as a hero had abused his power to prey on young girls.
(19) Soon afterwards this influence followed Twombly to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where his teachers included Robert Motherwell, although he was also inspired by the rector Charles Olson's interest in archetypal, symbolic imagery.
(20) Andrés Bello, an intellectual and humanist and the first Rector of the University of Chile, published several articles about cholera in the Araucano, a newspaper of Santiago.