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regent

ree juhnt

  • n  members of a governing board
  • n  someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch
  • s  acting or functioning as a regent or ruler
    prince-regent

  • The Governor, himself a regent, was there, munching his lunch and prompting his fellow board members.
  • Back in Tokyo, he was now regent for his sickly father, the Taisho Emperor.
  • California Regent Edward Carter contends that what a regent really needs is a diversified "experience of life and the breadth of vision that comes from it, since by the time .
News & Articles

  • Regent vote freezes tuition
    By: Janice Bitters   The University of Minnesota Board of Regents approved a tuition freeze for resident undergraduate students Friday, the first time in a generation. The freeze, a fulfilled promise from University President Eric Kaler to state legislators in exchange for increased funding, will hold tuition steady for the next two years for in-state students. But with the freeze comes ...
    June 15, 2013 - The Minnesota Daily
  • Regent Recruitment Sets up Shop in Manchester
    MANCHESTER, England, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Specialist catering industry recruitment agency Regent Recruitment is poised to relocate to Manchester city centre, in a move it hopes will bring it closer ...
    June 14, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
  • UW Regent nominee removed after it was discovered he signed recall petition
    Governor Walker has withdrawn his nomination for a UW-Platteville student to serve as a regent. Some lawmakers are responding by asking him to reconsider.
    June 14, 2013 - WQOW Eau Claire
Quotes

  • Steve Cohen in Guardian Unlimited
    The mission of the law school you attended, Regent, is to bring to bear upon legal education and the legal profession the will of almighty God, our creator,Cohen said. "What is the will of almighty God, our creator, on the legal...
  • Rob Boston in International Herald Tribune
    The alumni need to take a deep breath. Regent will survive a speech by a Mormon,said Rob Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which monitors Robertson's CBN news-and-talk show, "The 700 Club."
  • Andrei Lankov in Los Angeles Times
    Jang will be the prince regent, the mentor or - who knows - maybe the king, since nasty things have been known to happen to crown princes,said Andrei Lankov, a North Korea scholar with Kookmin University in Seoul.

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