The word 'regency' is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to a period of time in which a regent - usually someone appointed to govern a country or state - rules on behalf of a monarch. For example, "During the Regency period in England, the Prince of Wales was the regent from 1811-1820."
For example, Melina Mercouri refused to wear high-waisted dresses on Joseph Losey's The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958), set in the Regency era, preferring a shape that she believed to be more flattering to her figure.
After a few years in the doldrums, the character of this port town with its fascinating maritime heritage and fine Regency architecture is now being shaped by a creative community of musicians and artists, many of whom have relocated from London and Brighton.
He and Elizabeth chose Lyme Regis, where they moved first to a farmhouse on the Undercliff, the crumbling stretch of the Dorset coast where the heroes of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" began their secret affair, and then to a large Regency house in the town itself.Success brought a constant struggle against distraction, particularly the temptations of Hollywood.
Indonesia's 34 provincial governors, as well as more than 500 mayors and regency heads, or bupati, will now be chosen by regional legislatures, rather than being elected by the people they are supposed to serve.
In plush regency Cheltenham, the council wants 30% of new housing to be social; the figure is 40% in comfortable Poole in Dorset, while the Greater London Authority is targeting 50% in the capital over the next twenty years.Will this policy just create new ghettos?
Rivals of Mr Chubais talked of a "regency", and of a "coup d'état".
Following a frustrating search, he admitted defeat: "There was no shortage of slums; but they were not Georgian or Regency slums".*A full explanation of the method used is available here.
Along the faded Regency seafront, souvenir stalls halted trading, led by staff at a sweet shop where Marine Wright once worked.
The Morning Chronicle thinks that, "as to the Duke of Victory, as soon as a regularly convened and constituent Cortes shall have passed a vote terminating his Regency, we think he ought to submit to it.
He is representative of an older order, with connections to the Suharto era, that seems determined to fight back.That much became clear on September 26th when Indonesia's parliament, dominated by parties belonging to Mr Prabowo's "Red-White" coalition, passed a bill scrapping direct elections for 500-odd provincial governorships, regency heads and city mayors.
In the regency of Kediri, in Lombok, the principal of a state school complains that the money the authorities provide to cover the fees of the poorest students is not nearly sufficient.
