Sentence examples for governor first from inspiring English sources

The Legislature typically fights to increase the education outlay the governor first proposes.

Perhaps because the debate over removing the philosophical exemption has been rancorous and long, the governor first opposed the legislation.

CHARLIE CRIST, Florida's governor, first tried to make a gambling pact with the Seminole tribe in late 2007.

When the governor first asked whether or not I would consider being a candidate, I respectfully declined.

Then Mr. Cuomo approached the lectern, listed his predecessors' firsts – first black legislative leader, first black lieutenant governor, first black governor – and called him his friend.

He sat in the House of Lords from 1761 to 1770 and then was appointed governor first of New York in 1770 and then of Virginia in 1771.

— Tim Pawlenty, former Minnesota governor (third place) "This is the little-engine-that-could campaign".

In a statement, he said he was "a husband and a father first, a governor second and a reservist third".

His business card refers to him as "full-rank general" first, and governor second.

A rate hike became even more unlikely when Daniel Tarullo, another governor, seconded Brainard's position.

Two other female governors first took office in the same way, while 23 were elected in their own right.