mastership

Example Sentences

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In 1972, Russell was still lionized for his Senate mastership and his leadership of the Senate Armed Services Committee during the Cold War.

From Washington Times • Jan. 3, 2022

Snow’s “The Masters” makes heavy weather of an election to fill the vacant mastership of a college at Cambridge University.

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2016

The November issue contains a lengthy report on canine activity under the mastership of Presidents since 1951.

From Time Magazine Archive

The pugnacity recently expended on the slaves is redirected to keeping hostile tribes from capturing them—a difficult matter, because the slaves themselves show a disposition to try a change of mastership.

From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman

He afterwards held the mastership of a grammar-school, near Monmouth, whence he removed to a similar situation in Warwick. 

From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Williams, Robert