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governor

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In Japan , the is the highest ranking executive of a prefecture . The governor is directly elected for a four-year term. Governors are subject to recall referenda . In each prefecture, between one and four vice governors are appointed by the governor with ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Governor \Gov"ern*or\, n. [OE. governor, governour, OF. governeor, F. gouverneur, fr. L. gubernator steersman, ruler, governor. See Govern .] One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a board of governors (= in a school ) ▪ She sits on the board of governors. a school governor British English (= an elected person who works with teachers to make decisions about how a school is organized ) ▪ The school ...

Usage examples of governor.

Whitman was asked whether Bush should have an abortion litmus test for the Supreme Court, she boasted that as governor of New Jersey she had abjured litmus tests for her judicial nominees.

Logos was particularly considered under the more accessible character of the Son of an Eternal Father, and the Creator and Governor of the world.

Don Francisco de Montejo, Adelantado, the governor, when they were posted at Chichen Ytza.

The title Adelantado was given in Spain to the military and political governors of border provinces.

Have patience, for adventures will present themselves in which you can become not only a governor, but perhaps even more.

Barbaro told me the chief incidents in a life that had been adventurous enough, and informed me that he was now in the service of the Duke of Modena, the Governor of Milan.

Count Darbois, the governor of Agen, with a body of troopers, rode up.

Nabby, appraising the politicians she encountered in New York, including Governor George Clinton, surmised there were few for whom personal aggrandizement was not the guiding motivation.

San Francisco Mayor Conrad Aiken has called for a dusk-to-dawn curfew and has asked the governor to declare a state of emergency for the city and county.

This transaction was succeeded by another injurious affront offered by the governor or alcayde of Tetuan to Mr.

Diego Hernandez, a Portuguese, to the post of Alguacil Mayor of the Inquisition, and given him the right to wear a sword in virtue of his office, the Governor, meeting the man in the street wearing a sword against his regulations, made him a prisoner.

Court declined to intervene in case coming up from Georgia in which appellant, claiming that he had become insane following conviction and sentence of death, sought a postponement of execution from the governor of the State.

Therefore the royal Audiencia, in order to proceed with more certainty, called a council of the bishop who was governor of that archbishopric, the archbishop, and the superiors of the orders.

I have been told, most of them delivered as their opinion that the archbishop, although exiled, could still remain governor of the archbishopric, but no mendicant religious could act thus, as they were prohibited by law.

By it I request my very reverend archbishop in Christ, the father of the metropolitan church of the city of Manila, and charge the venerable and devout fathers-provincial and other superiors of all the orders in the territory of his archbishopric, to note that they are to inform my governor of the said islands whenever such cases shall occur to the prejudice of my treasury, and that the culprits be punished as is fitting.