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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of administer.

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Examples

  • The faction of the two party system that believes that the law can and should be competently administered is back in control. —

    Obama Fills Top Justice Department Spots - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • The family has requested that any donations be made to a scholarship in his name administered by the USOC at the University of Southern California film school.

    Olympic Filmmaker Dies At 84 AP 2010

  • The family has requested that any donations be made to a scholarship in his name administered by the USOC at the University of Southern California film school.

    Olympic Filmmaker Dies At 84 AP 2010

  • Its reason is sodium thiopental, the anesthetic administered when euthanizing living things so they will not feel pain when the two death dealing drugs are administered, is short acting and may have worn off before the remaining two drugs are administered.

    Christopher Brauchli: Executions Should be Painless Christopher Brauchli 2010

  • The family has requested that any donations be made to a scholarship in his name administered by the USOC at the University of Southern California film school.

    Olympic Filmmaker Dies At 84 AP 2010

  • College (now Canterbury University) was located in Christchurch, but was administered from the University of New Zealand,

    Ernest Rutherford - Biography 1966

  • The acknowledgment and confession of God to be in them, or among them, is a profession of faith in the word administered by them.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Even the smaller islands which are administered from the larger ones are inextricably mixed up.

    Challenge of the West Indies 1958

  • As I understand it, the Marshal Plan will be administered from a different body, separate from the State Department.

    United Europe 1948

  • I think we have proved that air transport properly organized and properly administered is really a very safe means of progress-safer, to my mind, than a good many railway trains in Europe today.

    Progress in Civil Aviation 1926

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