Word Finder - presidencies

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The office or role of president.

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After many years as a party leader, she finally ascended to the presidency.

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The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the president.

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Because of the president's lame duck status, the presidency was often hampered by congressional actions.

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The time during which one is president; a president's term of office.

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Ernest was a historian specializing in the presidency of Herbert Hoover.

The council was reduced to four members with a governor-general, who were to exercise certain indefinite powers of control over the presidencies of Madras and Bombay.

With the exception of the island of Sombrero they form one of the five presidencies in the colony of the Leeward Islands.

This vast tract comprehends the chief provinces now distributed between the presidencies of Madras and Bombay, together with the native states of Hyderabad and Mysore, and those of Kolhapur, Sawantwari, Travancore, Cochin and the petty possessions of France and Portugal.

First stand the two presidencies of Madras (officially Fort St George) and Bombay, each of which is administered by a governor and council appointed by the crown.

The two presidencies and also the five lieutenant-governorships each possesses a legislative council, modelled on that of the governor-general, but so that in every case there shall be a majority of non-official members, varying from 13 to 3.

In especial, they dominated over the British settlement of Bombay on the western coast, which was the last of the three presidencies to feel the lust of territorial ambition.

The system thus organized in Bengal was afterwards extended to Madras and Bombay, when those presidencies also acquired territorial sovereignty.

In Bengal, Madras and Bombay Presidencies women do not wear a skirt, only a choli and sari.

From 1707 to 1773 the presidencies were maintained on a footing of equality; but in the latter year the act of parliament was passed, which provided that the presidency of Bengal should exercise a control over the other possessions of the Company; that the chief of that presidency should be styled governor-general; and that a supreme court of judicature should be established at Calcutta.

Henceforth presidencies became permanent institutions.

Because officials can hold powerful positions that outlast presidencies and shifts in Congress, the deep state can exert its influence over a much longer period of time.