Woodrow

[ wood-roh ]

noun

1. a male given name.

Example Sentences

Advocates of so-called “responsible party government,” going back as far as President Woodrow Wilson, define democracy as “the popular control of government through accountable rulers. To them, only coherence, discipline, and solidarity of political parties can keep the rulers accountable.”

From Salon

On the Democratic side, Roosevelt and Kamala Harris were scorned by critics as intellectual lightweights, despite having had successful careers in government — Roosevelt as a New York state senator, assistant Navy secretary under Woodrow Wilson, and governor of New York; Harris as San Francisco district attorney, attorney general of California, U.S. senator and vice president.

From Los Angeles Times

Democrats regained the House and cut deeply into the GOP’s Senate majority in the midterm elections of 1910, and regained the White House with the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912.

From Los Angeles Times

Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson — presidents I respectively revere and despise — furthered this conception of the president as an avatar of the national will.

From Los Angeles Times

He said the government reaches too deeply into people’s lives and that “a coup in this country happened” when President Woodrow Wilson led America into the world’s problems by signing the Treaty of Versailles, which led to the United Nations.

From Los Angeles Times