(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.
Trustee
Definition:
(n.) A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached in a trustee process.
(v. t.) To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.
(v. t.) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
(2) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
(3) It is essential that charities integrate new trustees well from day one – and the process must not be rushed.
(4) Our board of trustees already involves [the ice hockey player] Ilya Kovalchuk and his wife Nicole, and we are now negotiating with [the boxer] Roy Jones Jr, who recently received Russian citizenship.” It is clear that Shatov is an achiever more than than a dreamer – a down-to-earth character who will never forget where he came from.
(5) I've just run a seminar at the BOND conference about an hour ago reminding people what the roles and responsibilities of being a trustee are.
(6) Unfortunately, a provision in the deal ensures that Sterling’s estranged wife Shelly, current trustee of the Sterling Family Trust, will remain associated with the team as its “owner emeritus and No1 fan”.
(7) Mind speaks for a diverse community and aims to reflect this in its board of trustees, half of whom must have direct experience of mental health problems.
(8) So if some trustees feel that increased demands on their time will be too burdensome, it best to leave the field open to others.
(9) In addition, BBC executives and trustees were summoned by parliamentary committees more than once a month.
(10) The Board of Trustees concludes that judicial intervention rarely is appropriate when a pregnant woman makes an informed refusal of treatment.
(11) I turned to one of the trustees and said 'We've made a computer company'.
(12) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Updated at 4.14pm BST 4.03pm BST BBC Trustee Anthony Fry explains what he said earlier about being told to "get back in my box".
(13) But, I worry that my views will alienate our trustees, staff, volunteers and donors.
(14) Trustees raised concerns about conditions attached to the inflation link, which was designed to mitigate the more than £700m cost of making the BBC fund free TV licences for the over-75s, minutes from a Trust meeting on 6 July, the day the government unveiled its settlement for the future of BBC funding , reveal.
(15) That morning he had given a cooking demonstration at a local farmers' market, of which he is a trustee.
(16) The trustees also said that the two parties should not have been involved in the negotiations because it was at Thompson's discretion not to include them in the debate at all.
(17) We are obviously very concerned about the wellbeing of the fund, which is heavily invested in energy stocks worldwide,” said Pete Grannis, New York State deputy comptroller, whose office is the sole trustee of the fund, which has one million members.
(18) Asked about another company, in which Firtash's shareholding was hidden behind a trustee, he said: "Mr Firtash at that time did not want to be a public figure."
(19) Bletchley Park was once one of the most secret places in Britain, but now its trustees hope to name and honour every person who worked at the code-breaking centre and reputedly helped shorten the course of the second world war.
(20) Chris Martin, chairman of the trustees of the BHS pension scheme, said: “Our focus is on clear communications with the members.