presidency
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For 16 years, it controlled the presidency - in the shape of Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and then Goodluck Jonathan - and the vast majority of the country's 36 states.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
His premiership coincided with the presidency of Jiang Zemin, the gregarious, bespectacled economic reformer who died in 2022.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
When creating the presidency, one of the Framers’ greatest worries was that holders of the new office would break through all the anti-monarchical provisions of the Constitution to become autocrats.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Howard Dean was critical of Israel during his bid for the presidency in the early 2000s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
It was difficult to think of the ever-combative, highly combustible champion of the American Revolution as extraneous and invisible, but that is what the vice presidency had made him.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
During Trump's first term, the US president and former Brazilian president Bolsonaro enjoyed a friendly relationship when their presidencies overlapped, and the two had met at the White House in 2019.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
That sets the early portion of his second term apart from most presidencies over the past four decades.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026
Those efforts survived several presidencies until President Donald Trump officially established the program during his first White House term.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
The investigation that ultimately ensnared Hernández stretched across several U.S. presidencies.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026
British India is no longer divided into presidencies, but into provinces, eight of which are very extensive countries, having separate governments.
From Les Parsis by Ratanbai Ardeshir Vakil
