"governor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- One governor would attempt to extract as much wealth as he could from the province for the benefit of Iraq, the central government, and, not infrequently, himself.
- One immediate result was cries from Bergen County lawmakers, who said that the governor was attempting an end run around them.
- He was quickly crushed by Probus, but soon afterwards an unnamed governor in Britannia also attempted an uprising.
- The governor of the city attempted to persuade her to renounce Christianity, but she refused.
- The bitter battling has revived speculation - never far from the surface in Albany - that the governor may attempt a coup in the Assembly.
- Successive territorial governors, usually sympathetic to slavery, attempted unsuccessfully to maintain the peace.
- Many southern governors, chief among them George Wallace, attempted to use National Guard forces to block civil rights and desegregation initiatives.
- Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan called Ryan "pathetic", and suggested that the governor was attempting to save his public image in hopes of avoiding prison himself.
- President Derqui again sent national army to intervene that province, but the new governor, Antonino Aberastain, attempted to resist the intervention with the local militia.
- "No other governor has ever attempted to challenge this constitutional prohibition."
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