Sentences with phrase «as tsar»

SWIF's performance was evaluated during disturbed conditions against standard models (e.g., climatology and persistence) and other forecasting models of different philosophy such as the TSAR that is a purely autoregressive technique and the Geomagnetically Correlated Autoregression Model — GCAM (Muhtarov et al. 2002) that is driven by the geomagnetic activity level by incorporating the cross-correlation between the foF2 and the Ap - index into the auto - correlation analysis (Tsagouri et al. 2009).

It will be the first time many of the paintings — acquired during the 17th and 18th centuries by rulers such as Tsar Peter I and Catherine the Great — have been back to the Netherlands.

The trip begins in St Petersburg where guests visit iconic sights such as the Tsar's Winter Palace, Nevsky Prospekt, St. Isaac's Cathedral and the Hermitage Museum.

Figures such as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, King Leopold II of Belgium and Ferdinand I of Bulgaria all graced the distinguished carriages.

The impact that produced the crater was two million times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever tested, a 58 - megaton hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961.

The larch remains the only survivor, and as a tsar, «continued to rule over everything around it.»

Catherine had a summer abode — Catherine Palace — built in what became known as the Tsars» Village.

The more you flaunt your wealth, the better as far as the Tsars were concerned.

Not exact matches

That's hundreds of millions of times as much as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and roughly 163,000 times as much as the Soviet Union's test of Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961.

Here's a weird historical example to prove that point, involving Tsar Ivan IV (spoiler alert: he's now remembered as Ivan the Terrible).

The tsar cited the corruption within the upper echelons of Russian society as the main reason for his departure.

And he'll have to think twice about his increasingly precarious position as the modern - day Russian tsar.

Of course, no one in Vermillion knew that jolly little Alexander Pell had started life as Sergei Degaev, the Russian revolutionary who, on December 16, 1883, achieved international fame for murdering Georgii Sudeikin, the all - powerful head of the Tsar's secret police.

When, in 1613, the first Tsar of a new dynasty (the Romanov) was brought to the throne, his father, as Patriarch, closely cooperated with him; together they restored order and gave stability to the new ruling line.

In addition, as Mahoney points out, anyone who reads The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century can see that Solzhenitsyn repeatedly criticizes Russian tsars for favoring imperialism over internal development.

Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis's chief financial adviser said he would take a leave of absence as the Vatican's finance tsar and would return to Australia to fight the charges.

As the «Tsar Of All The Russians», Ivan IV Vasilyevich had a bit of an ego, and he hated that Julius Caesar had his own salad.

Among the signatories to the joint letter are former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson, President of the Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain OBE, former government integration tsar Ted Cantle CBE, the General Secretaries of the National Education Union Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, as well as a number of high - profile authors, academics, and entertainers.

Businessman and TV star Alan Sugar has been appointed as David Cameron's new enterprise tsar — despite having clashed with the prime minister in previous years.

Last Friday, Alan Sugar was appointed as enterprise tsar by the prime minister as part of his cabinet reshuffle and government overhaul.

So the appointment of Lord Young as enterprise tsar is welcome news for the 4.8 million small firms as he understands their needs - he is avidly against red tape, one of the biggest bugbears for any business.

Lord Young's appointment as enterprise tsar is to be welcomed, but cuts in regulation and red tape can not come soon enough for small businesses.

Namely when he was forced to resign as Labour's social media tsar in 2012 after posting a spoof video online which compared Alex Salmond to Adolf Hitler...

The Sunday Telegraph revealed in May how Mr Cameron had appointed Mr Field, who was welfare reform minister in the early years of Tony Blair's government, as his «poverty tsar» as he put the fight against deprivation at the heart of his agenda.

David Cameron made Sir James his technology tsar in 2009 as part of his Get Britain Working masterplan.

The exchanges occured after Business Secretary Vince Cable had decided to go ahead with the appointment of Les Ebdon as university access tsar.

The impression of turmoil and confusion deepened on Friday, when the Labour peer Lord Adonis resigned as May's infrastructure tsar in protest at her handling of Brexit, which he described as «a dangerous populist and nationalist spasm worthy of Donald Trump».

Since the formation of the coalition, the government have been handing out non-jobs like sweeties in order to maximise the so - called «Payroll vote» (despite many of these roles — such as junior whips and Higher Education Tsar being unpaid).

In 2004 he made a deliberate calculation: to reposition himself as a New Labour - type race relations tsar.

As some Russian tsar said of the Ottoman empire in the nineteenth century, «We have a sick man on our hands».

Former Labour Cabinet minister Lord Adonis quit his job as government infrastructure tsar in protest at Brexit, which he is determined to «sabotage».

His remarks were seen as an offensive throwback to Thatcher - era harsh rhetoric, and are bound to lead to Labour calls for his dismissal as enterprise tsar on the grounds he is totally out of touch with the squeeze on living standards almost all voters are experiencing.

In 1742, Christian Goldbach, math tutor to Tsar Peter II, guessed that any even number greater than two can be written as the sum of two prime numbers.

The look as In The Name Of The Tsar wasn't the only thing mentioned for Battlefield 1, as EA teased a Gamescom announcement where new modes will be announced too.

Just take your pick: Russian Cinema Fund boasts such titles as «The Iron Ivan» and the cozy - sounding «Yolki 1914: Tsar Christmas», while Raven Banner Entertainment entices you to see «Wolf Cop» («Dirty Harry... Only Hairier!»)

McKellen has also been honored for his extensive television work, from the miniseries The Prisoner to his monumental performance in King Lear: from his reincarnation of Tsar Nicholas II in the telefilm Rasputin, to his classic guesting as himself in HBO's Extras.

An intimate and heartrending true account of Russia's 20 tsars and tsarinas as they turned a war - ruined principality into one of the greatest empires, only to lose it all, THE ROMANOVS» cast of characters includes Ivan the Terrible, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Bismarck, Lincoln, Queen Victoria, and Lenin.

The materials have informative exercises about the things that Russia is famous for, such as Vladimir Putin, the Soviet Union, tsars, Lenin, Siberia, the Cold War and many other things!

Russia needed to secure a foothold in the east as well as securing the vast expanses of Siberia, so in 1891 Tsar Alexander III approved a plan for a trans - continental line linking Moscow and St Petersburg with Vladivostok on the Pacific coast, as this was the only year - round ice - free port in Russia.

Lord Sugar has been appointed enterprise tsar as part of the government's drive to get more young people to start their own business or apprenticeship.

South Farnham Educational Trust, headed up by government teacher training tsar Sir Andrew Carter, has also been approved to deliver apprenticeships as part of the latest tranche, approved outside the normal timetable so they can be ready to offer new teaching apprenticeships from September.

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By the time you finish, you feel as though you know this temperamental, 6 - foot - 7 red - headed Russian tsar personally — maybe that's why I hopped straight into his lap when we met inside the Peter & Paul Fortress almost two years ago.

Comprehensive and well documented, this biography of the last Tsar's four daughters stops just short of their violent deaths as the tide turns in Russia.

- Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and The Tsar of Love and Techno «This extraordinary, piercingly wise novel examines as profoundly as any book I know the threads of injury and grace that stitch together a family.

One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar's army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner.

Explore the imperial twin cities of St. Petersburg and Moscow as they are today and their influence over the centuries and a fascinating encounter with the iconic sites of the Hermitage Museum, Tsar's Winter Palace, Red Square and the Kremlin.

Head to Nice and follow in the footsteps of pleasure - loving patrons of the past, such as Pablo Picasso and Tsar Nicholas.

The second train travels overnight to Ekaterinburg, in the centre of the Ural Mountains, the natural border between Europe and Asia and a place of great historical significance as it was founded by Peter the Great in 1723 and was the assassination site of the last Russian Tsar Nicolas II.

As of right now for YouTube views: A Way Out - 398k BF1 Name of the Tsar Trailer - 894k Need For Speed Paypack - 2m FIFA 18 Gameplay Trailer - 2m FIFA 18 The Journey Trailer - 3m SWBF2 Gameplay Trailer - 4m FIFA 18 Reveal Trailer - 5m So, they are aimed at their audience, and all this talk of the «hype» over A Way Out is just that, hype.