Sentence examples for governors first from inspiring English sources

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

Governors first began to assert their own power during the American Civil War as the General Assembly attempted to remove command of the militia from the governor.

Although the two California governors first bumped into each other on Saturday night – Brown was leaving a documentary screening; Schwarzenegger was signing autographs – they met again Sunday at the Four Seasons.

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.

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.

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

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.

The US could soon have its first black woman governor, first Muslim congresswoman, and more gay, transgender and bisexual elected representatives than ever.

These ties led him to being named governor first of Palestine and then of Damascus.