stewards

His stewards, whether as to temporal or spiritual things, if we are indeed acting as _stewards_ and not as _owners, _ He will make us stewards over _more.

George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God 1874

Just about all the waiters and service people (cabin stewards, pursers, etc.) on the ship are from Indonesia.

April 9th, 2007 ceciliatan 2007

Too bad — Native Americans like to portray themselves as longterm stewards of the land who think seven generations ahead.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Indians vs. Environmentalists 2009

The conveniences and elegancies of the table are now attended to; cooks write out their recipes in English; stewards draw up in the same language protocols concerning precedence, and the rules which a well-trained servant should observe.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Another argument against the Corinthians for their partial preferences of certain teachers for their gifts: whereas what God requires in His stewards is faithfulness (1Sa 3: 20, Margin; Heb 3: 5); as indeed is required in earthly stewards, but with this difference (1Co 4: 3), that God's stewards await not man's judgment to test them, but the testing which shall be in the day of the Lord.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

It is required in stewards that a man be found faithful (v. 2), trustworthy.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Big tech companies—e.g., Internet service providers or social networks—are what Ms. MacKinnon calls the "stewards and handmaidens" of Internet censorship.

Handmaidens to Censorship Luke Allnutt 2012

After this avowal I treated him with the respect due to his fancied rank, till I could call the stewards without exciting his suspicions.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

At a political meeting (they are often rough in England) the bouncers are called stewards; the suffragettes used to delight in stabbing them with hatpins.

Chapter 4. American and English Today. 2. Differences in Usage Henry Louis 1921