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Recent Examples of premiership
However, he is not allowed to make new major policy announcements or spending commitments during what remains of his premiership.
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ABC News,
24 June 2026
Yet meaningful change has been slow to materialize, souring views of Starmer’s premiership and inflicting heavy losses on the Labour Party in local government elections in May, which virtually sealed his fate.
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Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
23 June 2026
Starmer’s resignation paves the way to the premiership for Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester.
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Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
The threat to Starmer's premiership has been building for months following bruising defeats for his party in May local and regional elections.
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Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
Burnham was endorsed Monday morning by former Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who had been a potential rival for the premiership.
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Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
22 June 2026
If the Labour Party decides to unite around one person as its next leader, without an internal contest, Starmer could be out of the premiership by July.
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Frank Andrews,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
However, voters began souring on the centrist Starmer’s premiership, leading to major growth in popularity for the Green Party on the left and Reform UK on the right—the newer party led by former Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage.
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Zachary Folk,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
The main reason for the pullout was the accession of Andrej Babis to the Czech Republic’s premiership in December 2025.
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Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
26 May 2026
ABC News,
24 June 2026
Yet meaningful change has been slow to materialize, souring views of Starmer’s premiership and inflicting heavy losses on the Labour Party in local government elections in May, which virtually sealed his fate.
—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
23 June 2026
Starmer’s resignation paves the way to the premiership for Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester.
—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
The threat to Starmer's premiership has been building for months following bruising defeats for his party in May local and regional elections.
—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
22 June 2026
Burnham was endorsed Monday morning by former Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who had been a potential rival for the premiership.
—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
22 June 2026
If the Labour Party decides to unite around one person as its next leader, without an internal contest, Starmer could be out of the premiership by July.
—
Frank Andrews,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
However, voters began souring on the centrist Starmer’s premiership, leading to major growth in popularity for the Green Party on the left and Reform UK on the right—the newer party led by former Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage.
—
Zachary Folk,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
The main reason for the pullout was the accession of Andrej Babis to the Czech Republic’s premiership in December 2025.
—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
26 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for premiership
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His use of the presidency’s sweeping ability to unilaterally grant pardons and commute sentences is among the ways the Republican’s return to office has featured an expansive use of executive power.
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The disaster is becoming the defining challenge of Rodríguez’s interim presidency.
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His story stretches beyond sports, touching one of Haiti’s many mysteries of Haiti’s brutal Duvalier dictatorship and reflecting on the outsize role Haitians have long played in shaping American history.
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Virtually all contemporary dictatorships are cosplay democracies with term limits, elections, and legislatures—the few ruling, as Amos Perlmutter put it, in the name of the many.
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York is told that Somerset is imprisoned in the Tower of London, but when this is disproved by Somerset’s entrance, York announces his claim to the kingship.
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In the ancient kingship tradition, endangering the empire would cause a king to lose his farr.
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Quinn also made the decision to go play piano in New York at the end of last season after a steamy back and forth with Staten, whose father (Brett Cullen) challenged him for chairmanship of the Double K Ranch.
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That is the inheritance now facing Warsh, who has openly cast Greenspan as a model for his own chairmanship.
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Housing and affordability Each candidate describes housing affordability as a key hurdle for the next governor — and touts his proposal as a marquee policy for his governorship.
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Modern leaders Ever since the anti-immigrant 1990s governorship of the Protestant Pete Wilson, our governors, all Catholic, have defended immigrants.
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An additional $5 million will fund a deanship, $3 million will support a chair in biomedical engineering, and $5 million will establish a research fund for faculty fellowships, emphasizing cross-disciplinary collaboration.
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Suggs is listed as the team’s point guard, but because of his tendency for turnovers and general lack of floor generalship, the coaches have deployed him more as a 3-and-D player.
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There’s talk that this could be EMRO’s turn to hold the director-generalship.
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Over 108,000 entries from 160 countries were submitted, with seven photographers ultimately recognized for their technical mastery, originality, and conceptual strength.
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Head coach Luis de la Fuente’s team—built around players Rodri, Lamine Yamal, and Pedri—is known for its mastery of possession play and attractive passing.
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“Premiership.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/premiership. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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