Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Stewardship.
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Examples
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The WTO's "full private stewardry" program will extend these successes to reprivatize humans themselves.
Monday, November 27, 2006 As'ad 2006
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"Full, untrammelled stewardry is the best available solution to African poverty, and the inevitable result of free-market theory," Schmidt told more than 150 attendees.
Thursday, November 30, 2006 As'ad 2006
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"Full, untrammelled stewardry is the best available solution to African poverty, and the inevitable result of free-market theory," Schmidt told more than 150 attendees.
Monday, November 27, 2006 As'ad 2006
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The WTO's "full private stewardry" program will extend these successes to reprivatize humans themselves.
Thursday, November 30, 2006 As'ad 2006
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James Stewart, the fourth of his name, was one of these happy and beautiful natures: and though his life was one of almost unbroken prosperity and brightness, yet no man can say that his stewardry was not nobly held, and to the benefit of his kingdom and people.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862
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They fulfilled their stewardry with a unity of purpose and a steadfastness of aim which, when we take into account the continually recurring lapses of long minorities, is one of the wonders of the time.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862
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But howsoever his patronage of the arts, the buildings he has left to Scotland, or the tradition of the music and gentle pleasures which he loved, may justify him to the reader, it is at least clear that his stewardry of his kingdom was a miserable failure, and his life a loss and harm to his country.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets George Reid 1862
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The song of _Annie Laurie_ was written by William Douglas, of Fingland, in the stewardry of Kirkcud'bright, hero of the song
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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"Full, untrammelled stewardry is the best available solution to African poverty, and the inevitable result of free-market theory," Schmidt told more than 150 attendees.
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Schmidt acknowledged that the stewardry program was similar in many ways to slavery, but explained that just as "compassionate conservatism" has polished the rough edges on labor relations in industrialized countries, full stewardry, or "compassionate slavery," could be a similar boon to developing ones.
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