Sentence examples for native governor from inspiring English sources

Vermont's current governor, Peter Shumlin, is the first native governor in almost 40 years.

"This island was run like a ship," said Sergio Rapu, a Rapa Nui archaeologist who in the 1980's became the island's first civilian and native governor.

Dr Lipo, aided by anthropologist Sergio Rapu, the island's first native governor under Chilean rule, thinks he has found a way around this, with more rocking and less shuffling.

With this decline of Assyrian power, a native governor, Nabopolassar, was able, in 625, to become king of Babylon by popular consent and to inaugurate a Chaldean dynasty that lasted until the Persian invasion of 539 bc.

Four of the panel's seven members would be appointed by Waterbury's best-known native son: Governor Rowland, a Republican.

A stretch of 116th Street in East Harlem -- increasingly marked by Mexican restaurants and Dominican bodegas -- nonetheless still bears the name "Luis Munoz Marin Boulevard" after the first native son governor of Puerto Rico.

If she wins her tough race in November, she'd become the nation's first Native American governor.

An enrolled member of the Coeur d'Alene tribe, she would make history as the country's first Native American governor.

Democrat Paulette Jordan, who sought to become nation's first Native American governor in Idaho, also suffered a crushing loss by more than 20 points.

Bo Webb, a Vietnam Veteran and West Virginia native stated "Governor Joe Manchin has failed miserably in his duty to protect and defend the first amendment rights of coalfield citizens against assault and intimidation by the thug lieutenants of Don Blankenship.

Its numerical decline in Khurasan meant that the Khurasan-born Arabs could no longer be completely controlled by force; this opened the way for the appointment of a native Khurasani Arab governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar, to succeed Asad, and, eventually, for the outbreak of the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad regime.