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To stem any potential mutiny by the public, military commanders have replaced civilian governors.
The south is mobilising Italy's top division and enjoying cocking a snook at the game's governors.
The Government should not succumb to pressure by vested interests and should make speed governors for vehicles compulsory, at the earliest.
Parents in Adlington are celebrating after governors made a unanimous U-turn over controversial plans to rename a school.
But Philip Ashdown, the school's chairman of governors dropped a broad hint that Mrs White would be reinstated as head of the school.
The Democratic governors who witnessed the verbal assault were likewise restrained in their reaction.
But at the school's speech day in December chairman of the governors John Goodfellow called for a new site for the school.
The governors will decide if some or all of the pupils will be excluded for good after a full review of what happened.
There is pressure to democratise the corporation, to elect its governors, to ensure it represents all shades of opinion fairly.
They ruled their colonies through governors who obeyed orders without question.
The primary school has recently appointed two governors as press officers to promote the school.
After the attorney helped a gubernatorial candidate win an election, he became the governors counsel.
Presidents, governors, executives, mayors are looked to as strong and decisive.
Consider the small number of governors who waded into controversy in the past year over their handling of state government.
The public, parents and governors also gave the thumbs to other designs on show at the school display.
On average, governors volunteer around five hours of their spare time each month.
Education chiefs this week launched a fresh drive to recruit school governors across Wiltshire.
The government imposed arrest quotas on local authorities and threatened to sack provincial governors who failed to meet them.
On Monday night its success was celebrated at a gala dinner for staff, governors, fellows and guests from its past and its present.
But do any American governors actually believe in this sort of jingoism, or do they just affect to do so for political purposes?
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Examples from Classical Literature
Locke was not the only person who exposed the ineffectiveness of governors.
All their dark and rude notion of a reformed state was to live unbutchered by the Barons and untaxed by their governors.
One of the governors informed me that 'rikisha men sometimes cover seventy-five miles of level road in a day.
Meanwhile the governors of Szechwan in the west and Chekiang in the south-east made themselves independent.
A meeting of all the governors was immediately called at New York, for the purpose of concerting a plan for the ensuing campaign.
Although they withdrew their governors and garrisons from the other states, in Phocis they did not do so.
To accommodate the people and to enjoy the repose of midday, Roman governors, Suetonius tells us, mounted the bema at sunrise.
Instructions to royal governors were draughted by them and they made nominations in cases of vacancy in the colonial service.
Secondly, they are presidents of the wardmote and governors each of that ward whereby he was elected.
She says the school is understaffed and that the governors have consented to her obtaining some extra assistance.
Ocenus and Tethys are ranked in the highest classes of sea-deities, and as governors in chief over the whole world of waters.
In March, four Colombian governors came to Washington to denounce the fumigations.
Many of the royal governors were self-conceited, arrogant, and tyrannical.
Stuart Clack, chairman of school governors, urged parents at the meeting to descend on County Hall to demonstrate at the full council meeting.
Mr Nolan is being fully supported by the chair of governors in his continuing role as head teacher.
His lordship was one of the governors of that famous old collegiate institution called the Whitefriars.
Each child at the Founder's Day event received a currant bun from governors of the Nicholas Chamberlaine School Foundation.
Colbert had formed the idea of forcing governors of frontier places to feed the garrisons without pay, with what they drew from contributions.
Colonial governors discover that in a smaller world they are unable to overawe the even grander panjandrums of the BBC and The Times.
Sometimes, no doubt, it followed in the train of the pompous governors when they came over from England.
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