governor

Example Sentences

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She said the lieutenant governor’s role is typically a sleepy perch for politicians as they bide their time to run for higher office.

From Los Angeles Times

He was taken into custody after he checked himself into the University of Mississippi Medical Center with non-life-threatening burns, the governor's office said.

From Barron's

The governor’s office found that over the past decade, more than 1,000 housing projects in New York endured these expensive reviews despite having zero significant environmental impacts.

From The Wall Street Journal

Federal law offers Fed governors protection from arbitrary dismissal.

From The Wall Street Journal

He makes clear that politics was always the pole around which the family revolved, as Seward advanced from the New York state Senate, through two terms as governor, to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal