Sentence examples for governors taking from inspiring English sources

It came a week after Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, a former health care executive, reversed his previous position and joined a number of Republican governors taking federal money to expand Medicaid.

This means prison governors taking responsibility for the totality of what goes on in their prisons: being passionate not just about drug treatment, but about all prison activities, and ensuring staff and specialists work together and not simply within the confines of central contracts.

With a wave of new Republican governors taking office -- including Larry Hogan of Maryland, Greg Abbott of Texas, and Bruce Rauner of Illinois (the state's first Republican governor in 12 years) -- the question on the minds of every criminal justice advocate is this: which brand of Republican will they be?

Two lieutenant governors took the job.

In fact, both men, while governors, took a moderate and humane approach to illegals.

When Boris Yeltsin let regional governors take more power, they made a mockery of federalism.

The bill was first proposed last fall, before the governors took office.

Immediately after Blair's appearance, Gavyn Davies, the chairman of the BBC governors, took to the stand.

Thirty-one states, including sixteen that now have Republican governors, took the feds up on this offer.

Republican members of Congress and governors take turns delivering the radio remarks, according to a spokesman for the Republican Governors Association.

The negotiations with both unions lacked the sort of public enmity seen recently in other states like Wisconsin and New Jersey, where the governors took a more confrontational approach.