presidentship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of presidentship
Example Sentences
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The King hesitated, but the Princess made him accept it, and the corregidor of Madrid, Ronquillo, a man of obscure origin, was nominated to the presidentship.
From Political Women, Vol. 2 by Sutherland Menzies
He resigned the presidentship of the Royal Society in 1827.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
A committee was formed, under the presidentship of Mr. John Symons, a member of the Town Council, and a man of untiring energy and philanthropic disposition.
From The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Henry Woodcock
It is impossible not to sympathize with Boone's disappointment at the failure of this long-planned expedition, which he had looked forward to as the crowning achievement of his presidentship.
From The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by J. (John) Biddulph
He hasn’t a cent; and if you offered him to-morrow the command of an army, or the presidentship of the United States, he wouldn’t take it, and you know he wouldn’t.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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