Example collocations logo

Governors in sentence

278 examples of Governors in a sentence

Two former Nigerian presidents, Generals Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida, publicly oppose Obasanjo’s constitutional meddling, and several governors of Nigeria’s Muslim-dominated northern states have made clear that they are determined to see Obasanjo off when his term expires in 2007.
Northern governors oppose a third term for Obasanjo because they believe it is now their turn to choose Nigeria’s president under a deal, struck with their southern counterparts when democracy was introduced in 1999, for regional rotation of the presidency.
Southern governors argue that control of the presidency should remain with the south for years to come, because the north controlled the country during more than three decades of dictatorship.
Indeed, even southern governors who are not reliable Obasanjo allies appear determined to maintain their influence within the central government by ensuring that the country’s next president is a southerner.
Last December, 16 of Nigeria’s 17 southern governors signed the “Enugu Declaration” in support of the constitutional amendment that would permit him a third term.
Northern governors could, for example, offer the southern states a larger share of Nigeria's oil revenue in exchange for their support for a northern president.
Many Duma members and local governors owe their jobs to Gazprom.
Yet the Fed, its governors argue, cannot be expected to do that on a regular basis.
In a 2015 speech, Stanley Fischer, one of the most internationally-minded of the Fed’s governors, acknowledged that world financial stability could be supported by a global central bank, yet concluded: “I should be clear that the US Federal Reserve is not that bank.”
At stake is the presidency, but also positions for 27 state governors, 54 senators and nearly 1,600 elected officials.
Indeed, the situation is even more absurd when G7 finance ministers meet: the central bank governors of France, Germany, and Italy still attend these meetings, even though their banks have been reduced to local branches of the European Central Bank, while the president of the ECB - these countries' real monetary authority - is a mere "invited guest."
On one side were Fed governors who argued that the only effective way to rein in financial excesses was to raise interest rates.
In the US, that meant that virtually all presidents had either served in Congress or as state governors, with the only modern exception being Dwight Eisenhower, whose background as an Army general stood in for political experience.
Of the 250 members of provincial Communist Party standing committees, an elite group including party chiefs and governors, 60 claim to have earned PhDs.Tellingly, only ten of them completed their doctoral studies before becoming government officials.
The OZ program grants US governors the authority to designate up to 25% of low-income census tracts – those with an individual poverty rate of 20% or higher, and median family income below 80% of the state or territorial average – as OZs.
To ensure that the program benefits distressed communities, and not just wealthy investors, governors will have to choose wisely when designating low-income zip codes as OZs.
But, partly owing to a Supreme Court decision and the obduracy of Republican governors and legislators, who in two dozen US states have refused to expand Medicaid (insurance for the poor) – even though the federal government pays almost the entire tab – 41 million Americans remain uninsured.
With little or even no evidence, the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB, may now jail federal ministers, regional governors, opposition leaders, theater directors, environmental activists, or ordinary Russian citizens who express political views on Twitter or Facebook.
Both men’s imprisonment precipitated the downfall of a vast network of senior leaders, including provincial governors and the head of the China National Petroleum Company.
When it worked – which was not always true – the chair ruled the FOMC with an iron hand and with the near-lockstep voting support of the governors.
In a report submitted to the finance ministers and central bank governors gathered in Bali, the group argues that it should be possible for countries to benefit from international capital flows without risking excessive market volatility and crises.
Perversely, some provincial governors and government officials are themselves major players in the drug trade.
What would have happened if Argentina's provincial governors had also miraculously been converted to the IMF's niggardly "logic," as demanded?
And it was the argument made by supply-siders who opposed US Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker’s high-interest-rate policy in the early 1980s – an argument that spurred President Ronald Reagan to appoint two Fed governors to challenge Volcker in 1985.
How can we expect these governors to be independent from bankers when they have lived, breathed, and eaten the banking perspective for their entire careers?
One wonders why, if he is so opposed to easy monetary policy, he didn’t convey that to Fed governors at a time when the message might have done some good.
The sitting governors have demonstrated the ability to do that.
The loss of political power in the regions (regional governors, for example, were evicted from the Duma's upper house) has incited serious discontent that is spilling over into the public sphere.
Moreover, in the last few years, the system of checks and balances in place within the Fed’s Board of Governors has been severely hampered by the fact that, in his first term, President Barack Obama had the rare opportunity to appoint or re-appoint almost all of its members, enabling him to replace hawkish governors with doves.
The last hurdle would be a resolution that obtains the support of the majority of the IMF’s board of governors.
BackNext