mayorship

Examples

• All

• That piece of prose catapulted George to worldwide fame and nearly the mayorship of New York.

  Blog text (27)

• On the other hand, the DPP gained seats and won the coveted and important Taipei mayorship.

  Academic text (1995)

• Candidate preference was not solicited for assembly representative or for the mayorship.

  Academic text (1992)

• Drew parlayed his historical success into political points, winning the mayorship of Guelph, then premier of Ontario, and eventually rising to lead the federal Conservative Party.

  Academic text (2005)

• Here is what I hold to be true: the mayorship of Janice Daniels has been bad for Troy, and I believe her continuing as mayor will bring nothing but more bad.

  Blog text (11)

• Some KMT officials have voiced the hope that the DPP would win the mayorship of Taipei because the city is unmanageable.

  Academic text (1995)

• For the New Party, which was still very weak outside northern Taiwan but stood an excellent chance of capturing the Taipei mayorship, a victory in the capital city would consolidate its strength and lay a firm foundation for its further growth on an island-wide basis.

  Academic text (1996)

• They first competed for political office in the 1998 elections, and since that time have secured several mayorships, primarily in and around Caracas and Miranda state, and congressional seats.

  Academic text (2002)

• It is particularly noteworthy that in campaigning for the Taipei mayorship, the DPP's Chen Shuibian deliberately sidetracked and played down sensitive political issues.

  Academic text (1996)

• Mr. Anthony Weiner is seeking the mayorship of New York, though he has gotten off to a rocky start.

Synonyms

M

mayoralty

vsmayorship

• Formal

2 8.1

A time when a person is the mayor of a city

is the same meaning but uses an alternative noun form in writing

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology