She saw herself as the custodian of the government's covenant, direction, tempo and temper – its quality controller, as well as leader.
We need to have an entity that is responsible for the BBC and is the custodian of the licence fee.
The tax cut package is a variations of ideas already proposed by Ukip and the Liberal Democrats, but left Labour gasping at "the audacity of David Cameron offering himself as custodian of public finances, and the provider of such unfounded tax cuts".
As a custodian of long-term retirement funds there are few better than Neil Woodford.
The country he leaves behind is a far better custodian of human dignity than the one whose first democratically elected president he became in 1994.
On this recommendation, Mr Bush needs to insist on his prerogatives as custodian of America's foreign policy and just say no.
Sir Alex presented himself as the custodian of this sacred tradition: "the keeper of the temple," he called himself.
Webb Edward Mafeking of that clan on his birth certificate, plain Webb to us journalists the office manager and custodian of precious items including paper clips, once protested, "You had two sheets of paper yesterday .Today, it seems, paper comes into use only when the issue is printed and bound.
The leader of the Brotherhood's political party, the Islamic Action Front, Muhammad al-Ziyoud, toys with calling for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey to replace King Abdullah as the Custodian of al-Aqsa.
And the river-level at Varanasi, Hinduism's holiest city, where Mr Mishra is the eighth-generation custofian of a temple dedicated to the monkey-god Hanuman, has fallen.
Given how fast the budget deficit has been growing, a prudent custodian of the public finances would be raising taxes or cutting spending.
