Word Finder - governor

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The chief executive officer of a first-level division of a country.

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A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.

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A member of a decision-making for an organization or entity (including some public agencies) similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.

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Father.

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Boss, employer, similar to gaffer.

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Term of address to a man; guv'nor.

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(grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.

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One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.

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A pilot; a steersman.

The governor was much pleased with this answer.

He was then sent as governor to Sicily, the richest of the Roman provinces.

In 1867 he became governor of Turkestan, and held the post until his death, making himself a name in the expansion of the empire in central Asia.

She grabbed the closest object, a brass paperweight, and hurled it at him, bouncing it off a picture of her shaking hands with the late governor, sending glass flying.

Do you remember Dr. Garcelon, who was Governor of Maine several years ago?

So the governor called two of his trusted officers and told them to carry the tripod to Priene and offer it to Bias.

Some say he's bound for Governor, maybe even the presidency.

The governor was a brisk little man, very simple and affable.

He was chosen first governor of the state of New Jersey in 1776, and was regularly re-elected until his death in 1790.

After the defeat of the king of Vijayanagar at Talikot (1565), Dharwar was for a few years practically independent under its Hindu governor; but in 1573 the fort was captured by the sultan of Bijapur, and Dharwar was annexed to his dominions.

Each elects its governor, legislators and provincial functionaries of all classes, without the intervention of the federal government.

When the Military Governor had gone, Prince Vasili sat down all alone on a chair in the ballroom, crossing one leg high over the other, leaning his elbow on his knee and covering his face with his hand.

In 1847 he was appointed governor at the Hague, and commandant in South Holland.

The Senate elects a president, confirms or rejects the nominations of the governor, and acts as a court of impeachment for the trial of public officers, besides sharing in legislative functions.

These are all under the supervision of a state board of control of three members, appointed by the governor, which was created in 1909, and also has control of the finances of the state educational system.

Though this news was being concealed from the inhabitants, the officials--the heads of the various government departments--knew that Moscow would soon be in the enemy's hands, just as Count Rostopchin himself knew it, and to escape personal responsibility they had all come to the governor to ask how they were to deal with their various departments.

The governor appoints, subject to the consent of a majority of the members elected to the Senate, all officers whose appointment or election is.

The governor sends a message at the beginning of each session of the legislature, and may convene the houses in extraordinary session when he deems it necessary.

While governor he was a frequent contributor to the New Jersey Gazette, and in this way he greatly aided the American cause during the war by his denunciation of the enemy and appeals to the patriotism of his countrymen.

After that day he underwent great personal risk in saving fugitives; in particular, he saved the life of the count of Champcenetz, the governor of the Tuileries, who was his personal enemy, at the request of Mrs Elliott.

After a bloody defeat at the hands of the neighbouring mountaineers (409) the Spartan governor quarrelled with the native settlers, whom he expelled in 399.

In 1835, with the title of governor and captain general, he acquired dictatorial powers, and all public authority passed into his hands.

The governor is aided by a privy council, an advisory body to which the governor nominates a minority of unofficial members, and a council general, to which is confided the control of local affairs, including the voting of the budget.

The province used to be one of the administrative divisions of Khorasan, but is now a separate province, with a governor appointed by the shah.

The town received a municipal charter in 1860, and during the governorship of Lord Lamington (1896-1897) became the summer residence of the governor and his staff.

He was the son of Lucius Vitellius, who had been consul and governor of Syria under Tiberius.

The executive department consists of a governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer and attorney-general.

As a result of the dispute between Governor Arthur St Clair and the Territorial legislature, the constitution of 1802 conferred nearly all of the ordinary executive functions on the legislature.

The governor's control over appointments was strengthened by the constitution of 1851 and by the subsequent creation of statutory offices, boards and commissions, but the right of veto was not given to him until the adoption of the constitutional amendments of 1903.

The power as conferred at that time, however, is broader than usual, for it extends not only to items in appropriation bills, but to separate sections in other measures, and, in addition to the customary provision for passing a bill over the governor's veto by a two-thirds vote of each house it is required that the votes for repassage in each house must not be less than those given on the original passage.

The province of Africa was the only senatorial province whose governor had originally been invested with military powers.

The same year he held the post of governor of Copenhagen and shared with Byrge Trolle the control of the treasury.

His governor, Marshal D'Ornano, was arrested by Richelieu's orders, and then his confidant, Henri de Talleyrand, marquis de Chalais and Vendome, the natural sons of Henry IV.

This council was presided over by the governor of the Transvaal and formed an important part of the administrative machinery.

Then one of the fishermen said, "Let us ask the governor about it and do as he shall bid us."

So they carried the tripod to the governor, and each told his story.

The Military Governor himself? was being asked at the other side of the room.

The same evening that the prince gave his instructions to Alpatych, Dessalles, having asked to see Princess Mary, told her that, as the prince was not very well and was taking no steps to secure his safety, though from Prince Andrew's letter it was evident that to remain at Bald Hills might be dangerous, he respectfully advised her to send a letter by Alpatych to the Provincial Governor at Smolensk, asking him to let her know the state of affairs and the extent of the danger to which Bald Hills was exposed.

Alpatych replied that the Governor had not told him anything definite.

In 1 774 the governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, himself led a force over the mountains, and a body of militia under General Andrew Lewis dealt the Shawnee Indians under Cornstalk a crushing blow at Point Pleasant at the junction of the Kanawha and the Ohio rivers, but Indian attacks continued until after the War of Independence.

Reprisals on the part of the subadar were followed by war, and, annoyed at the failure of his pacific schemes, the governor resigned and returned to England in 1764.

A governor has been appointed since 1885, some importance being foreseen for the islands in connexion with the cutting of the Panama canal, as the group lies on the route to Australia opened up by that scheme.

The highest office in connexion with the Cinque Ports is that of the lord warden, who also acts as governor of Dover Castle, and has a maritime jurisdiction (vide infra) as admiral of the ports.

In 16, when governor of Gaul, he was defeated by the Sigambri (Sygambri), Usipetes and Tencteri, German tribes who had crossed the Rhine.

Marcy in 1833-1839, was a member of the New York Assembly in 1842, in 1844 and in 1845, being speaker in 1845; mayor of Utica in 1843, and in 1852 was elected governor of the state over Washington Hunt (1811-1867), the Whig candidate, who had defeated him in 1850.

In1863-1865he was again governor of New York state.

He was defeated as Democratic candidate for governor in 1864.

He established his royal city on the eastern hill close to the site of the Jebusite Zion, while Jebus, the town on the western side of the Tyropoeon valley, became the civil city, of which Joab, David's leading general, was appointed governor.

At the corner stood the residence of the Babylonian governor, near the site upon which King Herod afterwards built his magnificent palace.

When governor of Alexandria he was slain by the soldiers, as having participated in the rebellion of Avidius Cassius (175).