How To Use Governorship In A Sentence
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A governorship was a lucrative and prestigious position, but it was not a sinecure.
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The party regulars slated the Manhattan district leader for the governorship.
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For one thing, it appears that Schaller is using a much narrower definition of "dynastic" -- he counts only those with family members in Congress as opposed to, say, Governorships or other high political officials; clearly, if the son of a Governor is elected to the U.S.
Salon
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MBO of privately owned enterprise shows more and more effect perfecting corporation governorship.
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We need a two-term governorship to solve the problem of institutionalized short-sightedness and lack of long-term accountability, we need to support bipartisan restricting and not just when we are in the minority, we need even stricter ethics rules and increased transparency in campaign financing, etc.
Greg Werkheiser: Thoughts on the DPVA Chair Job
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She said she resigned her governorship because she ran up $500,000 in debt defending herself against what she called frivolous claims.
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With Ohio set to lose two congressional seats in redistricting next year and primed to be at the center of the 2012 presidential fight, controlling the governorship is of critical importance.
Ohio election results 2010: Portman wins; Kasich beats Strickland for governor's seat
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She apparently never talks about politics and has ruled out a senatorial bid, but friends say she is interested in the governorship.
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Houston used all his mighty personal influence, and all his charmful, potent eloquence to keep Texas in _the Union_, he failed, and was deposed from the Governorship on his refusal to sign the Ordinance of
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They were put up for brigadier generalcies and he was rewarded with governorship of Sonora.
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Second, in 2016, Jindal will have a two-term governorship to run on, allowing him to show that his conservative approach to governing works.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
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The governorship went to a Democrat, Mrs Anne Richards.
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For years, Best painfully articulated that the form in outward appearance may be Westminster but the content is pure, unadulterated governorship.
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She looked on the governorship as a stepping - stone to the presidency.
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How did a Democrat managed to capture the governorship of such a state in such a year?
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The Workers' Party failed to win a single governorship.
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Likewise, the “pro-choice” concept met public demand so long as Romney Inc. was a Boston-based senatorship and governorship-seeking enterprise.
Can you count on Mitt Romney's never-ending pasta bowl?
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The chairman of the party's financial committee always held the governorship of the Central Bank.
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The Hawaii governorship is current controlled by Republican Linda Lingle, who is prevented by law from seeking another term in 2010.
House Democrat resigns to focus on gubernatorial bid
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If the jurors were unmoved by the dignity of the presidency, they were not going to be impressed by the governorship.
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The party that holds the state governorship and the state legislature is well placed to redistrict to its own advantage.
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He was promised the governorship of Gibraltar, but was disappointed.
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I sympatize with Republican party, they must be dreaming if they think they can win governorship election against democrats in new jersey. common people be realistic, Corzine with all his money, all New Jersey democratic voters state, and a brand new president who is tearing himself apart to correct all the wrongs in this country.
Poll: New Jersey voters embarrassed by corruption sting
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Despite his humbling defeat for the governorship of California in 1962, the latter had made a remarkable comeback.
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Matt. and Luke he is correctly called by the title of "tetrarch," which only implies governorship of a portion of a country.
The Books of the New Testament
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He had not a single qualification for the governorship of a bank.
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Like his predecessor, he was a distinguished soldier without civil experience rewarded with a colonial governorship.
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While candidates whom CIBPAC's funders have sponsored still comprise a sixth of the current legislature, the Republicans twice lost the governorship by fielding ultraconservatives against Democrat Governor Gray Davis.
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Wilson would have to resign the governorship, ceding control to Democrat Gray Davis.
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The governorship went to a Democrat, Mrs Anne Richards.
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‘A revote would be the best solution for the people of our state, and would give us a legitimate governorship,’ his letter said.
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By the early 1990s, the Texas governorship was again in the hands of a Democrat.
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Two years later, at thirty-two, he won the Arkansas governorship.
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The move, which the commissioners say took them by surprise, was one of many Mr. Perry has taken to strengthen his authority and centralize control—turning a traditionally weak governorship into a power center.
In Texas, a Weak Office Becomes Stronger
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Yesterday's election for the presidency and 36 state governorships was a litmus test for democracy in a country which has spent most of its 43 years since independence governed by military juntas.
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The aluminium magnate won the governorship of the autonomous region, just across the Bering Straits from Alaska, in 2000.
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His right wing PAN party lost legislative seats and governorships in places long considered PAN strongholds.
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He was elected to a US state governorship.
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With the arrival of Captain Morgan on the barque Duke of York on 27 July 1836 at Kingscote, Wallen's governorship came to an end.
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In Kazakhstan the “bench of reservists” for the governorship is positions is as short as for a dozen of people.
Global Voices in English » Kazakhstan: Cadres decide everything
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The Workers' Party failed to win a single governorship.
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But Bauer is promising not to enter the race if he assumes the governorship - a scenario he first floated to CNN in June after Sanford revealed an extramarital affair and came under fire from members of his own party.
SC Lt. Gov. to ask for Sanford's resignation
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He held the governorship for almost a decade
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Cosby arrived in New York to assume the governorship in August of 1731.
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The party has already lost the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia in the first major post-Obama votes.
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The party has already lost the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia.
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He continued the governorship of the Company, his authority never challenged by subordinates or the Committee in London.
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After losing the presidency in 1960 and the California governorship in 1962, he came back to be elected president in 1968.
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Civil government was formally restored on May 1,1946, when Sir Mark Young resumed his interrupted governorship.
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Political parties were formed, and candidates were nominated for president and vice president, the two houses of the National Assembly, governorships, and state houses of assembly.
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In the political arena, once the governorship candidate has emerged, everybody settles down; what remains is to plug their selfish interests onto the "mains" of the governor, not bothering much about the person's specifications of his running mate, who, in reality, is a
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In February 1559 he made a desperate plea to the queen to allow him to resign the governorship.
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Is it not clear that she quited her governorship job for an easy money making machine in writing a book (full of lies, BTW?)
Palin reaches the 1 million mark
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But they comforted themselves knowing they'd picked up a couple of governorships, winnowing the Republican lead to 24-23.
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Donald Carcieri, elected for his unsurpassed avuncularity, is in the death throes of his pathetic governorship of Rhode Island.
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The governorship is just a stop on the way to his real goal.
Villaraigosa to make announcement on Situation Room
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First, both men were conservative Democrats running in the last Southern state to deny any Republican the governorship since Reconstruction.
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Paladino had repeatedly made promises to "take a bat to Albany," and though he told NBC's "The Today Show" in September that "my baseball bat is the people," his supposed metaphor seemed to carry the dual message that the conservative firebrand wouldn't be scared to bash some skulls were he to take the governorship.
Carl Paladino Concedes, Brandishes Bat, Tells Cuomo He Risks 'Having It Wielded Against' Him (VIDEO)
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As consul, he used violence to force through legislation favouring Pompey and Crassus and giving himself the governorship of Gaul.
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He assumed the governorship of Hong Kong on 25 July 1947 and retired on 31 December 1957, having been the colony's longest serving governor.
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Almost immediately after winning the governorship, he had begun to maneuver for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
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She hasn't demonstrated that she has learnt something since she lost the election and hence quited the governorship.
Brown sticking with Romney over Palin
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Imagine yourself taking the governorship of Virginia when you had tied in the vote with your opponent, when every ballot had been bitterly contested, and when roughly half the state might have thought that you had kind of finagled your way into office.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Recount: State Supreme Court Allows Manual Recount to Continue; Federal Court to Hear Republicans' Case Against Hand Counts - November 16, 2000
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He had been slated to take over the governorship of Sicily in 72 B.C. but the Spartacus War got in the way, and Arrius was reassigned to Gelliuss staff, with the rank of propraetor.
The Spartacus War
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When Palin quit the Alaska governorship earlier this year, she blamed political enemies for harassing her out of office.
Palin's tale of two worlds
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The speedup is the latest move in a tumultuous legislative session that followed last fall's midterm elections in which Republicans won the governorship and control of both chambers of the Legislature.
The Seattle Times
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One of the unfortunate side effects of the single-term governorship is that the governor responsible for a decision is rarely still the governor when the consequences of the decision become adverse.
YAPP in Fluvanna at cvillenews.com
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The Maori version cedes "kawanatanga", or governorship, which may be something less than sovereignty.
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Yet on July 23, Samak annihilated his opponents to win the Bangkok governorship with a record-breaking one million votes, almost twice the total of the other 22 candidates combined.
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On June 30, 1629, Henry Hawley arrived on the island and assumed the governorship.
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And I asked her about the Trooper-gate, which she calls Taser-gate, and whether or not her -- she made a mistake allowing her husband to basically use the office of the governorship to try to fire that trooper, her ex-brother-in-law, who was causing the family so much trouble.
CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2008
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An “eight straight” two-term governorship would lose sight of what it means to be a modern commonwealth instead of a mere state.
Does Virginia Need A Two-Term Governor ?
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Novel article, but one quick correction: North Carolina's governorship is NOT "up for grabs" in 2010 – Gov.
President takes health-care battle to battleground states
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He has enough of a job on his hands holding on to the deputy governorship.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wilson would have to resign the governorship, ceding control to Democrat Gray Davis.
