until recently he has been fully engaged in pursuance of his duties as governor
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accomplishment, achievement, commission, discharge, enactment, execution, fulfillment (or fulfilment), implementation, performance, perpetration, prosecution;
administration, direction, handling, management;
application, operation, practice (also practise);
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