(a.) The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.
(a.) Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government.
(a.) A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chaytor had claimed £12,925 between 2005 and 2006 for renting a flat in Regency Street, Westminster, producing a tenancy agreement purporting to show that he was paying £1,175 a month in rent to the landlord, Sarah Elizabeth Rastrick.
(2) The variation in the breastfeeding period between the regencies is a matter of further investigation.
(3) They live in a Regency house in Brighton and must be reasonably well off.
(4) When the former Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe needs attention, he presses the buzzer hanging from his neck and Disney's It's a Small World After All rings round his large Regency house in Notting Hill.
(5) But Revolution, performed at the Regency in San Francisco in a church-like venue that evoked the Moscow cathedral, had repeated dark undertones.
(6) A microscopic study in 1975 and 1977 revealed unusual cytoplasmic vacuoles in the sperm of "Regency" prompting us to send semen to A. J. Luedke, USDA-ARS, Denver, Colorado, USA, to attempt virus isolation.
(7) Pyongyang, a film commissioned by New Regency pictures and set to star Steve Carrell playing a character accused of espionage by the regime, will no longer go into production, according to deadline.com .
(8) Considerable and rather unexpected differences existed between regencies.
(9) Regency, Victorian and Edwardian have resonance, but trying to crystallise her decades into an epoch will cause furious debate.
(10) In the regencies along the south and north coast of East Java 90%, respectively 94% of children aged 19-24 months were still breastfed; in Sidoarjo, a relative 'surplus' area, the corresponding figure was 73% and on the island of Madura 51%.
(11) For many years they lived in a handsome regency house near Frome in Somerset.
(12) In 1985, the disease had spread to 26 of 27 Provinces and 160 of 300 regencies or municipalities.
(13) "There is already a system in place for the Dalai Lama's regency.
(14) The second charge alleges that between September 2005 and September 2006 Mr Chaytor dishonestly claimed £12,925, purportedly for renting a property in Regency Street, London, when he was in fact the owner of the property.
(15) For Mike Hussey, director of Land Securities' London , who was managing the development at the time, that meant an architect working in traditional or classical styles, such as Quinlan Terry, one of the princes' favourite architects, who specialises in building grand houses in historical modes: Ionic, Gothick, Corinthian, Regency, but definitely not "ultra-modern" as Nouvel proposed.
(16) Build the message that Trump is screwing the very people he said he’d fight for Jon Favreau “It’s very easy for all of us to go down the rabbit hole … then you waste all your time and energy on the Trump tweet of the day, and you don’t build the message that Trump is screwing the very people he said he’d fight for.” In Baltimore, between closed-door panel sessions, Democrats milling about the lobby of the Hyatt Regency were mindful of the constant media churn surrounding Trump.
(17) In this study an intervention alternative was carried out with weekly chloroquine prophylaxis to children below 10 years of age in 3 malaria areas of central Java, namely the villages Bedono Kluwung and Kalikutes in Purworejo Regency and Pablengan in Karang Anyar Regency.
(18) I've done a regency print that I've also developed into a jacquard in royal blue.
(19) Legislation will amend laws including the Bill of Rights 1688, the Act of Settlement 1700, the Act of Union with Scotland 1706 and the Coronation Oaths Act 1688, Princess Sophia's Precedence Act 1711, the Royal Marriages Act 1772, the Union with Ireland Act 1800, the Accession Declaration Act 1910 and the Regency Act 1937.
(20) He is understood to have bought a Regency townhouse in Edinburgh, and apartments in London and New York.
Regent
Definition:
(a.) Ruling; governing; regnant.
(a.) Exercising vicarious authority.
(a.) One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler.
(a.) Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
(a.) One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
(a.) A resident master of arts of less than five years' standing, or a doctor of less than twwo. They were formerly privileged to lecture in the schools.
Example Sentences:
(1) An ‘approved’ poster in the student center at Regent University.
(2) Her parents, Apiruj and Wanthanee Suwadee, were found guilty of violating Article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code which says anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with up to 15 years in prison.
(3) They were banging on their shields and chasing these people up Regent Street.
(4) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
(5) Similarly, on the south side of the nearby Regent's Canal stand huge blocks of modern private apartments; two-bed flats here have a £600,000 price tag .
(6) According to Vince McCartney of Holborn Studios, “there will be a corridor of steel and glass from King’s Cross to Limehouse” – a distance of about five miles along the Regent’s Canal – as waterside spaces are made into flats.
(7) People have felt part of this right throughout the season,” said Bodiat, 19, a student from Regent College who had come out with four other friends all wearing blue headscarves.
(8) I’m a tax exile.” The high-profile property developer – who with his brother, Nick, developed the superluxe One Hyde Park apartment complex for London’s oligarchs and is now converting a row of seven houses overlooking Regent’s Park into a single 4,600 sq metre London mansion – even named his twins Isabella Monaco Evanthia and Cayman Charles Wolf.
(9) Squatters inside the building, a former police station in Beak Street, off Regent Street, accused police of heavy-handed tactics after they were led out by officers who forced their way in after a tense standoff lasting more than three hours.
(10) Had something happened to his spouse, Prince Philip would have served as Regent until his son came of age.
(11) Serological survey of the other primates in the Regent's Park collection did not reveal the presence of the surface antigen in 2 gorillas, 11 orang-utans, and 2 gibbons, although surface antibody was present in the serum of 1 gorilla and 2 orang-utans.
(12) The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park won best musical revival for Hello Dolly!
(13) Right now, there are properties for sale for tens of millions of pounds around London's Regent's Park.
(14) A typical sales pitch comes from Pendragon Management in London , with an office address in Regent Street.
(15) "As a leader, I have always followed the principles I first saw demonstrated by the regent at the 'great place'," Mandela recalled.
(16) It gets even worse when you are proud of the fact that you went to Pat Robertson’s God Hates Facts pay-and-print diploma mill Regents University, where you wrote , “Every level of government should statutorially and procedurally prefer married couples over cohabitators, homosexuals, and fornicators.” So it gets fantastically worse when you describe your marriage as on “hold” and live during the trial with your parish priest, Rev Wayne Ball of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, whose assignations Talking Points Memo delicately summarizes as thus : Ball, then pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Norfolk, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of frequenting a bawdy place.
(17) Cotton was a founder of the American College of Surgeons and served as Regent of the College as well as on the Committee on Fractures.
(18) At that time there were nine wolves still left on the island, and Isle Royale National Park Superintendent Phyllis Green said: “The decision is not to intervene as long as there is a breeding population.” Regent Honeyeater breeding program boosts population of endangered bird Read more In just one year, that “breeding population” is all but extinct.
(19) The New West End Company, which represents 600 retailers on Oxford Street, Bond Street and Regent Street, estimated about 1 million shoppers had visited their stores over the weekend – fewer than the 1.2 million customers they had expected based on last year's figures.
(20) But no – we just run down Piccadilly Circus and into Regent Street, then Oxford Street.