What is "governorship"

Usage examples of "governorship".

He immediately joined the Confederate Army, where he remained in high command until the close of the war, after which he took active part in the politics of his State and was elected to the Governorship in 1876.

Johannes de Graaff returned to the scene of his former governorship as a private citizen in 1779.

The Governors Convention In 1966 Betty Raye was relieved to learn that there was another wife running for a governorship.

Let us not mistake reformed councils, more lawcourts and even governorships for real freedom or power.

But there again he quarreled with his associate governor and, on being transferred to the governorship of Tambov, quarreled again.

There was no movement for a fortnight afterwards upon either side, save that of Sir Charles Warren, who left the army in order to take up the governorship of British Bechuanaland, a district which was still in a disturbed state, and in which his presence had a peculiar significance, since he had rescued portions of it from Boer domination in the early days of the Transvaal Republic.

All the appointments which he made to Consulships or provincial governorships were really hers: and they were very sensible ones, the men being chosen for merit, not for family influence or because they had flattered her or done her some private service.

So he had ensured the election of two staunch followers in Norbanus and Scipio Asiagenus and then given himself the governorship of Italian Gaul in order to keep an eye on things and be in a position to act the moment it became necessary.

The Capuan school of course had not seen him since he assumed his governorships, for the governor of a province could not set foot in Italia proper while ever he commanded an army.

A charge of treason, as you will shortly see, will be largely limited to men given provincial governorships or commands in foreign wars.

During those years Themistocles not only learned to speak Persian without accent, he was given the governorship of Magnesia.

Dolfin had been compelled to solicit from the Grand Council a lucrative governorship, and had been appointed to Zante.

You may be hoping for further advancement in the cursus honorum - surely two ex-consuls must be hoping for governorships?

He was the Dutch republican Governor yet at this moment he was likely to lose his governorship (and perhaps his life) to a republican rabble scrabbling their way across the arid island, walking and Daggering, riding stubborn donkeys, drinking raw rum or gin, raping or robbing as the fancy took them.

To which Sancho replied, "Ever since I have sniffed the governorship I have got rid of the humours of a squire, and I don't care a wild fig for all the duennas in the world.