"governor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- One might think that Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., an independent third-party governor, would already have his hands full dealing with the Democratic-controlled Connecticut Legislature.
- That compares with four vetoes overridden last year, Mr. Weicker's first year in office as a third-party independent governor.
- And four times the lawmakers' plans have been rejected by Mr. Weicker, a third-party independent governor without a single member of his tiny party in the General Assembly.
- Legislators had become more like independent contractors, people, in other words, with whom a third-party governor can negotiate.
- Preconceptions about lame ducks would be shattered, he said, in the same way that he had earlier demolished notions about the ineffectiveness of third-party governors.
- Both of the third-party governors in 2001 are gone; one seat went to the Republicans, the other to the Democrats.
- More important, Mrs. Groark argues, a third-party governor will be free to push through much-neededprograms that have stalled because of partisan gridlock.
- For lawmakers and Mr. Weicker, a third-party independent governor whose insistence on overhauling the tax system by imposing an income tax has driven the conflict, the stakes are immense.
- Mr. Weicker, a third-party independent governor, vetoed three budgets last year before the Legislature came up with a $7.6 billion spending plan that satisfied him.
- A bearlike man with self-confidence that borders on arrogance, he defied the odds three years ago to become the state's first third-party governor in this century.
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