Sentences with phrase «chancellor seems»

«From the start, the chancellor seems to have deliberately engaged in a process of destroying the culture of the school system,» she told an audience at St. John's University in 2007.

Raiding the pension pots of the rich to meet the ransom presumably needed to obtain his own release; a price the chancellor seems willing to pay, in spite of the risk of upsetting factions in the party.

Something about the shadow chancellor seems to have caught the child's attention.

The chancellor seemed relaxed, even jubilant.

When Labour's highly - acclaimed, energetic and long - standing chancellor seemed invincible and was described by William Keegan, after his 2004 budget, as «the greatest Chancellor since Lloyd George», Economic growth was at 3.2 %, the inflation rate was at stable and healthy and unemployment was at the relatively low rate of 4.8 %.

Not exact matches

The pictures of a beaming German chancellor and Chinese prime minister extolling the Sino - German «dream team» projects seem to be souvenirs of another time.

Visions of the chancellor desperately paddling away from a whirlpool of economic calamity seem all to easy to conjure up.

He said: «They have a leader who will not sing the national anthem, a shadow chancellor who seems to admire the IRA more than he does the British Army, a shadow foreign secretary who sneers at the English flag and a shadow home secretary who seems to advocate unlimited immigration.

This seems to be the case with the chancellor of the exchequer's autumn Budget statement.

It seems the Tory chancellor is willing to accept Labour's demand for the levy, which the opposition wants to finance a # 2.5 billion cash injection into the NHS.

The chancellor is due to spell out his own plans on Monday before the autumn statement on 3 December, but seems to be making his plans for devolution dependent on combined authorities agreeing to directly elected mayors.

«Today's growth forecasts and unemployment figures are yet another wake - up call to a chancellor who seems to be in denial that his reckless policies are holding back the economy, undermining consumer confidence and smothering the recovery,» Mr Balls said.

It wasn't just the chancellor who seemed to forget all about social housing.

Because of all this, there seems little realistic option but to agree to a free vote (which the leader's chief ally, the shadow chancellor John McDonnell, favours anyway).

Less than a month after it was enacted, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new teacher evaluation plan seems to be in jeopardy, with the Regents chancellor calling for a year's delay and a key senator saying the legislature needs to revisit the issue.

Within seconds of his first publication, all of the world's keyboard warriors seemed to emerge from their slumber to abuse the chancellor.

But John Bercow prefers to see the chancellor as an abacus man, it seems.

After the Budget, shadow chancellor Chris Leslie seemed to support almost all the measures in the announcement, but voiced concern about changes to tax credits as a potential «work penalty».

But a tremendous gaffe about unemployment is not all that Hammond has in common with the former Tory chancellor, it seems.

Mr Brown has been under increasing pressure since the Times obtained documents seeming to show the chancellor ignored advice from civil servants that his planned # 5 billion reduction in tax relief would cost the pension fund up to # 75 billion.

We have a lord chancellor who seems to have difficulty defending the judiciary.»

He asked where Gordon Brown had been, and questioned why the chancellor always seemed to «disappear» at times of crisis, citing not only the current police probe, but the rebellion over trust schools and the vote on the war on Iraq.

De Blasio sent a letter to the former schools chancellor saying that Moskowitz seemed to be getting special treatment.

It seems likely that the shadow chancellor is now even more inclined to think that the Coalition will collapse before 2015.

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has this afternoon commented on the matter to the Manchester Evening News - and whilst he repeats Mr Grayling's point about the Government's inconsistency, he seems to suggest that the ban was wrong:

I seem to remember that it was Tory chancellors setting the rate through political expediency under Thatcher - not «the market».

While she has increased efficiency by consolidating district schools that have lost students to charter schools, Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Kaya Henderson initially seemed intent on preventing charters from accessing the empty buildings.

Read in the context of D.C. politics, this seems to say: Keep the mayor and chancellor out of any independent evaluation, but let the unions play a major role.

The normally unflappable Tisch, the first woman chancellor in New York history, seemed caught off guard.

It was the most recent of a growing list of decisions she has made while running the nation's largest school system that seem to be based not on empirical evidence, but on the chancellor's personal preference.

Ms. Moskowitz saw another motive at play: «I think the problem is that we now have a mayor and a chancellor who don't seem to want to learn from what we can do,» she said.

But if his selection to be the department's chief academic officer offers any hint of the direction of the city's schools, one thing seems certain: Mr. Polakow - Suransky will continue the same kind of data - driven reform embraced by Joel I. Klein, whom Ms. Black is expected to succeed as the city's schools chancellor.

The Rhee reforms didn't look so bad, and Rhee's deputy, Kaya Henderson, seemed like the perfect chancellor.

Strangely, the government in its 8 June 2017 election campaign led by Theresa May, seemed to try to embrace a socio - economic approach, very contrary to what a stronger chancellor would be able to propose.

So tweeted the former Labour MP and barrister David Lock QC about the seeming equanimity of our present lord chancellor at the series of vicious and personal press attacks on our judiciary following the ruling of the High Court on the Art 50 litigation.