Crossword clues for presidency
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Presidency \Pres"i*den*cy\, n.; pl. Presidencies. [Cf. F. pr['e]sidence.]
The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.
The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency.
The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison.
One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "office of a president," from Medieval Latin praesidentia "office of a president" (mid-13c.), from Latin praesidentem (nominative praesidens) "president, governor" (see president). Earlier in same sense was presidentship (1520s). Meaning "a president's term in office" is from 1610s.
Wiktionary
n. The office or role of president.
WordNet
n. the tenure of a president; "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration" [syn: presidential term, administration]
the office and function of president; "Andrew Jackson expanded the power of the presidency beyond what was customary before his time" [syn: presidentship]
Wikipedia
A presidency is an administration or the executive, the collective administrative and governmental entity that exists around an office of president of a state or nation. Although often the executive branch of government, and often personified by a single elected man or woman who holds the office of "president," in practice, the presidency includes a much larger collective of people, such as chiefs of staff, advisers and other bureaucrats. Although often led by a single person, presidencies can also be of a collective nature, such as the presidency of the European Union is held on a rotating basis by the various national governments of the member states. Alternatively, the term presidency can also be applied to the governing authority of some churches, and may even refer to the holder of a non-governmental office of president in a corporation, business, charity, university, etc. or the institutional arrangement around them. For example, "the presidency of the Red Cross refused to support his idea." Rules and support to discourage vicarious liability leading to unnecessary pressure and the early termination of term have not been clarified. These may not be as yet supported by state let initiatives. Contributory liability and fraud may be the two most common ways to become removed from term of office and/or prevent re election.
Presidency was used as a term for a country subdivision in British India.
Presidency refers to the executive branch of a nation's government under a President
Presidency may also refer to:
- Presidency of the Council of the European Union
- Lay presidency at the Eucharist
- Presidency (theology), a religious, organizational concept loosely based on The Trinity
- Presidency (Pakistan), is the official residence and the principal workplace of the President of Pakistan
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Presidencies of British India; one of the following three former provinces:
- Bengal Presidency (Presidency of Fort William)
- Bombay Presidency
- Madras Presidency (Presidency of Fort St. George)
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Presidency College; one of the following colleges in India (named for the Presidencies they were instituted in):
- Presidency College, Chennai
- Presidency College, Kolkata
- Presidency University, Bangladesh
- Presidency School, in Bangalore
- Bosnian Presidency
Usage examples of "presidency".
President during one term, by the operation of this law, will not extend the appointee during another term because that same party may happen to be re-elected to the Presidency.
Thus ended the brutal reign of the infamous Tonton Macoutes who had probably killed another 20,000 people under the presidency of Baby Doc.
Old World was drenched in blood to propagate the ideas which the French Revolution had proclaimed, the Presidency of Quito, walled in by its immense cordilleras and the ocean, and ruled by monkish ignorance and bigotry, knew as little of men and events as we now know of men and events in the moon.
By the mere election of Lincoln to the Presidency, the further extension of slavery into the Territories was rendered forever impossible--Vox populi, vox Dei.
Heartened by the large vote of 1892 the Populist leaders prepared to drive the wedge further into the old parties and even hoped to send their candidates through the breach to Congress and the presidency.
Porno, under this porno presidency, stopped policing itself and entered its Salo period.
The Hudsons Bay Governor, who also retained his presidencies of the Bank of Montreal and Royal Trust and his seat on the executive committee of the CPR, was quickly reappointed by the new government.
The merchants residing at Surat, finding themselves exposed to numberless dangers, and every species of oppression, by the sidee who commanded the castle on one hand, by the governor of the city on the other, and by the Mahrattas, who had a claim to a certain share of the revenue, made application to the English presidency at Bombay, desiring they would equip an expedition for taking possession of the castle and tanka, and settle the government of the city upon Pharass Cawn, who had been naib or deputy-governor under Meah Atchund, and regulated the police to the satisfaction of the inhabitants.
So that we continue to enjoy the services of this exemplary public servant, I here declare that when, as I confidently anticipate, I am renominated as candidate for the presidency of the United States next month, I will ask David D.
Bangor, where, feeling useless and rejected, he had withdrawn after failing of renomination for the Vice Presidency.
And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act upon that judgment and feeling.
I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel, and yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.
Samuel Locke, another from the class, was not only the youngest man ever chosen for the presidency of Harvard, but to Adams one of the best men ever chosen, irrespective of the fact that Locke had had to resign after only a few years in office, when his housemaid became pregnant.
Because Washington, a Virginian, was certain to become President, it was widely agreed that the vice presidency should go to a northerner, and Adams was the leading choice.
Abigail, who in her letters to her sister Mary was to provide an inside look at the Adams presidency like no other, much as she had in portraying their life in France and London years before, writing always to the moment and with untrammeled candor.