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noun Parliamentary Procedure.

an officer charged with keeping the minutes of meetings and responsible for the records.

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QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

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“We got more Republican support than we were expecting,” said Josh Lyon, 19, who serves as recording secretary for the Teen Republicans.
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And compare, as noted up top, to Secretary Clinton, who spent years quietly pushing a modernized Cuba policy.
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The certification, which lasts three years, was renewed by then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in 2012.
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Even Defense Secretary Gates, at least for a time, was open to the notion.
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In order to withhold the photographs, the secretary of defense must certify that photographs could cause harm to Americans.
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ALEC echoed the ideology of Charles Wilson, the first Defense Secretary in the Eisenhower administration.
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He desired his secretary to go to the devil, but, thinking better of it, he recalled him as he reached the door.
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At his desk sat his secretary, who had been a witness of the interview, lost in wonder almost as great as the Seneschal's own.
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I should pay a capable secretary like you—knowing several languages and all that—say forty dollars a week.
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Probably his Private Secretary, considering you a new man, will have failed to furnish the necessary information.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
And here let me point out for your future guidance the importance of having a private secretary thoroughly up to his work.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various