Sentences with word «czar»
The word "czar" refers to a person who has a lot of power and authority, similar to a king or ruler. It is often used to describe someone who controls or oversees a specific area of government or business. Full definition
As the «Czar of Cars» discusses on CNBC's «Blue Collar Millionaires,» Gill grew up in Fresno, Calif. working in a first - generation Indian family of immigrant farm workers.
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We all know that Drug Czar McCaffrey of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) issued a March 5 directive to DEA and the Commissioner of the US Customs Service telling them to consider all hemp imports as capable of containing THC.
His research has earned him the scorn of White House science czar John Holdren, who personally attacked Pielke's research last year.
Taking center stage was Howard Zemsky, Governor Andrew Cuomo's economic development czar as president and CEO of Empire State Development, who defended the state's jobs programs and was
The state is working on «multiple fronts» to close and replace the Indian Point nuclear plant, state energy czar Richard Kauffman said — a direct acknowledgement that the Cuomo administration is actively trying to shutter the Westchester County facility.
Let's hope President Obama's revamping of his energy and climate team (If you hadn't heard, Carol Browner, the White House czar for these issues, is leaving) results in more support for the E.P.A. unit working with industry to redefine best practices.
The tall, athletic, gray - suited father of three was appointed Chris Christie's education czar for New Jersey in January 2011 and now oversees the Garden State's 2,500 public schools, 1.4 million students, and 110,000 teachers in more than 600 school districts.
Kaiman was appointed by Cuomo in 2013 as storm recovery czar for Long Island after superstorm Sandy under the New York Rising Community Reconstruction Program.
Of course, he is referring to Steve Rattner, the former Obama administration car czar who agreed to pay $ 10 million in fines.
Holdren is in a position as Science Czar in the Obama White House to try and make this prophecy a reality.
A monument of the Russian Czar Alexander III destroyed by the Communists.
Her former EPA air quality and climate czar John Beale is in prison for fraud, and the agency has conducted numerous illegal air pollution experiments on adults and even children — and then ignored their results in promulgating regulations.
Former Bush administration drug czar John Walters and two other scholars wrote last fall, «There is another type of «stigma» afflicting drug users — that their crisis is somehow undeserving of the full resources necessary for their rescue.»
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland was in Washington last week meeting with U.S. trade czar Robert Lighthizer, who has said he is hoping for an agreement in principle within weeks.
O'Donnell resigned her post as Gov. David Paterson's public safety czar in February in the wake of the David Johnson domestic violence scandal, which theoretically freed her up to raise campaign cash and woo Democratic leaders.
The film also travels a bit northwest to Cincinnati, the third central locale, where Caroline (Erika Christensen), the teenage daughter of newly - appointed U.S. drug czar Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas), brings her father's enemy much closer to home than he could have ever imagined.
A signature economic development program conceived by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a success, the administration's top economic development czar said Monday after an at - times contentious appearance before state lawmakers at a public hearing in Albany.
The media and education policy writers swoon before self - styled entrepreneurs and education czars who talk big, ignore history and count success according to how many teachers and principals they fired rather than whether students did better.
«How does the governor justify supporting only the upstate nuclear power plants and not Indian Point,» Cesar Penafiel, Director of Analytics at Environmental Progress, asked Richard Kauffman, Cuomo's energy czar at meeting last April.
From the ascension of Czar Alexander III in 1881 until the revolution, Russian Jews were unremittingly persecuted.
As a senior feature writer for the UK's Mail on Sunday he was among the first people to view the letters and diaries of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra, unearthed in the Moscow State Archives in 1991.
Houston's proposal to tighten development rules in flood - prone areas should be thoroughly discussed, but is not necessarily likely to change, the city's Hurricane Harvey recovery czar said Friday.
He served as a housing czar under former Gov. Mario Cuomo, and as a paid consultant to COR Development, the Central New York real estate firm whose top executives allegedly bribed Percoco for his help with their state - funded projects.
I'm with Czar Nicholas, that great Bad Motherfucker Of All Russia, on this one.
ALBANY — The state is working on «multiple fronts» to close and replace the Indian Point nuclear plant, state energy czar Richard Kauffman said, in a notably direct acknowledgement that the Cuomo administration is actively trying to shutter the Westchester County facility.
PlanRad Live welcomes space historian and writer Andrew Chaikin, former NASA Mars Czar Scott Hubbard, and Bill Nye the Science Guy to a live conversation at Planetfest: Curiosity Knows No Bounds, just a few hours before the triumphant landing of the big new rover on Mars.
The governor said he spoke to President Barack Obama on Thursday night, as well as Ebola czar Ron Klain about the situation.
Another female would - be AG contender, Gov. David Paterson's former homeland security czar Denise O'Donnell, also considered the race and ultimately decided against it.
A former longtime aide to Cuomo, Joe Percoco, along with nanotech czar Alain Kaloyeros and lobbyist Todd Howe and Buffalo developer Louis Ciminelli are the apparent focus of the probe after the administration was issued the subpoena, according to The Daily News.
The Republicans showed all their cards and intentions for Milwaukee Public Schools on Thursday, a day after the resignation of Takeover Czar Means.
A federal agreement to settle allegations that former Obama administration auto czar Steven Rattner took part in a «pay - for - play» scandal in New York has been put on hold to coordinate a deal with state authorities, according to sources familiar with the matter.
About one year before the first event, Lu Wei, a former head staffer at state media outlet Xinhua, kicked off his appointment (paywall) as internet czar by silencing some of the most vocal party critics on Weibo, one of China's largest social networks.
White, who is married to former car czar Steve Rattner, called attacks against Saujani's Wall Street background «annoying.»
When Thomas B. Fordham Institute education czar Mike Petrilli once again trotted out a defense of ability - tracking, the racialist - driven form of rationing education that essentially declares that poor and minority kids are incapable of comprehensive college - preparatory learning, he made the mind - boggling declaration that teachers need to be freed from «ideological» opposition to teaching methods that in his mind may work.
That wasn't the case Wednesday, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development czar Howard Zemsky alternately jousted with, rebutted and generally went head - to - head with lawmakers who posed pointed questions about job creation programs overseen by Empire State Development Corp..
«Give General Motors credit for staying true to the Solstice concept, the car GM product czar Bob Lutz ordered up 15 weeks before the 2002 Detroit show,» said AutoWeek senior news editor Bob Gritzinger.
Despite mea culpas and the public backing of his boss, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Kevin Jennings, a so - called schools czar in the Obama administration, continues to be the target of a conservative campaign against his long - ago actions as a schoolteachers.
He quit his unofficial post as White House regulatory czar, not because of moral compulsion, but because he knew that The New Yorker was about to drop an article revealing the extent of his self - dealing on behalf of his refinery company.
How best to meet the regional tastes and preferences of the poor without money being wasted on Czars in transit?
No, American education doesn't need czars or dictators.
More than two years after Mayor de Blasio announced an ambitious plan to create 15,000 supportive - housing apartments, only a few hundred are up and running, the city's homelessness czar said Tuesday.
Climate czar Carol Browner is spotted on Capitol Hill almost daily on a senator - by - senator effort to push climate change legislation through the Senate.
In 1992, at a preview for a few automotive journalists, Chrysler product czar Bob Lutz, who now serves in a similar capacity at General Motors, unveiled the company's next big chance - taker, the 1994 Dodge Ram pickup.
Review of Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg by Alice Goldfarb Marquis (Lund Humphries, 2007) in London Review of Books, 5 April 2007, p. 27.