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Example sentences for: lieutenant

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The lieutenant governor presides over the Senate, appoints the Senate's committees and committee chairs, controls the flow of bills to the floor, and co-chairs the powerful Legislative Budget Board.
With great pioneering skill, Upper Canada’s first lieutenant governor, John Simcoe, pushed new highways north from Lake Ontario and west to Hamilton.
No woman in New York history has ever been elected to a statewide post more august than lieutenant governor.
Some countries name their currency to honor people famous in their history: bolivar (Venezuela) for the liberator of South America, Simón Bolívar; sucre (Ecuador) for Antonio José de Sucre, chief lieutenant of Bolívar and liberator of what is now Ecuador at the battle of Pichincha in 1822 near Quito; colón (Costa Rica, El Salvador) for Christopher Columbus; balboa (Panama) for Vasco Núñez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean; lempira (Honduras) for the 16th-century Indian chief who is a national symbol of liberty and valor for resisting the Spanish advance; and córdoba (Nicaragua) for Francisco Hernández de Cór doba, first acting governor.
Repeatedly between 10:14 and 10:19, a lieutenant colonel at the White House relayed to the NMCC that the Vice President had confirmed fighters were cleared to engage inbound aircraft if they could verify that the aircraft was hijacked.