presidentship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of presidentship
Example Sentences
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I had the honour of being on the committee under the presidentship of the Lord Mayor of London, for the victualling of Paris after her surrender.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John
And then he had been, on the death of West, in 1820, elected to the presidentship of the Academy.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton
The council of war assembled on the night of the 1st of July at the head-quarters at Lavillette, under the presidentship of the Prince of Eckmuhl.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
Battus III. had been compelled to submit to a constitutional form of government which restricted the monarchy to a hereditary presidentship.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Duncker, Max
You will have heard of my appointment to the presidentship of the College of Boggleywollah.
From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss
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