How To Use provost In A Sentence
- The collegers came from a wide social range, though conditions in College were bad and the boys much neglected until the reforms brought in by Provost Hodgson (1840-53).
- Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity. Patsy
- The system of education and discipline pursued has undergone some modifications in recent years -- notably during the provostship of the Rev. Francis Hodgson; but radical defects are still alleged against it. The Grand Old Man
- The group was welcomed by West Dunbartonshire's Lord Provost Alistair MacDonald, and presented with a silver quaich.
- In the first year of the new academic plan, 11 proposals from three colleges were funded through the pool managed by the Provost Office.
- And so the most important of "the streamlike windings of the glorious street" was in part determined by a corrupt bargain between "a vile Whig" (as Hearne calls this hated Provost) and a complaisant mayor. The Charm of Oxford
- Condoleezza Rice, his national security adviser, is a former provost of Stanford University.
- A defection from Labour ranks to the Scottish Socialist Party in Renfrewshire a month ago means that Labour can only win votes with the casting vote of the provost.
- It was brought into the station by the lord provost of Stirling, Colin O'Brien, accompanied by pipers to the tune of ‘Scots Wha Hae’.
- Our colleges and universities need deans, provosts and presidents who support and promote psychological science.