Sentences with phrase «czars who»

That's Nation - State The former Presidential administration appeared to be «tech savvy» pushing for Czars who really didn't do a DAMNED thing to get people back to work or shore up security for the American population.

This sense of the church as teacher, offering a wisdom that never varies but is always relevant, survived both czars who tried to turn the church into a department of the state and commissars who tried to relegate it to the museums.

Sandoval restructured Nevada's ineffectual business - recruitment bureaucracy, naming a development czar who reported directly to him.

Of course, he is referring to Steve Rattner, the former Obama administration car czar who agreed to pay $ 10 million in fines.

Not exact matches

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.

In the Western media, Lu is described as China's «Internet czar,» implying that he is the gatekeeper who decides which Western Internet giants can do business in China.

Such little things can be telling, much as using the word «czar» to describe a presidential appointee who wields unaccountable power is a metaphor that may disguise a literal truth.

The «black sisters,» Montenegrin princesses who married into the Romanov family, introduced Rasputin to the czar and czaritsa.

It flourished as a social phenomenon in Russia during the reign of Alexander II, one of the most liberal czars, who was ultimately killed in a terrorist act.

Remember who executed Russian czar and his children?

We have a president that received no vetting from CNN or those who voted for him and look what we got... a partisan ideologue who has brought the number of Americans who need food stamps to a record high, embraced policies that have resulted in 23 million Americans unemployed or under - employed, decreased household incomes by $ 4000 annually, increased the number of Americans dependent on the federal government to nearly 50 % and appointed dozens of «czars» who we know nothing about and who were also never vetted.

In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off - the - record, the Senior Vatican Official, said to me, «They only know how to be chaplain to the czar — whoever he is.»

He saw Stalin's man who had demolished the Christian cathedral of the Czars «down own his knees worshipping the Cross of Jesus Christ».

Babcock spent a year learning under Spurs shooting czar Chip Engelland, who begins retooling players» mechanics by examining their fingers.

Another way to spell it is Steven Rattner, a storied Wall Street money manager who served as President Obama's former auto czar and helped get this idiotic film (see choochthemovie.com) distributed on DVD.

My downstate colleagues have been doing a pretty thorough job covering what might be the most interesting of the six Assembly special elections to be held Sept. 13: The three - way Democratic battle for the Brooklyn seat vacated by Darryl Towns, who is now Gov. Andrew Cuomo's housing czar.

A Buffalo real estate executive who this week was appointed Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's economic development czar said he understands some of the challenges facing Long Island, having grown up here in the 1960s and»70s.

Sadik - Khan seems to have beaten out the other serious contender, Michael Horodniceanu, who did a traffic - czar stint under Dinkins, in a face - off policy wonks were watching closely because the two candidates seemed to embody two opposite approaches.

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Howard Zemsky, a Buffalo real estate executive who this week was appointed Cuomo's economic development czar, said he understood some of the challenges facing Long Island, having grown up here in the 1960s and»70s.

Getting a plea deal from Rattner — Obama's former car czar, a big Democratic donor and a close friend of Mayor Bloomberg (who has endorsed Cuomo for governor)-- would make national headlines and further assit the gubernatorial frontrunner in his quest to demonstrate that he is indeed a corruption fighter who can clean up Albany.

William Eimicke, a consultant who served as former Gov. Mario Cuomo's housing czar, was also present.

Or the former editor of the Evening Standard, Veronica Wadley who volunteered to be his «volunteering czar» for # 76,000 a year and is now reported to be working on his leadership campaign?

White, who is married to former car czar Steve Rattner, called attacks against Saujani's Wall Street background «annoying.»

Even a former top federal counter-terrorism official who «fully understands» Kelly's motives said the International Liaison Program would have to be reconfigured by Bratton and his new counter-terrorism czar, John Miller, if they plan to keep it staffed.

A COR consultant, William Eimicke, who served as Gov. Mario Cuomo's housing czar, serves on the same board.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer, for one, tried to weigh in on schools by creating the post of senior education policy adviser — dubbed «education czar» by some — and filling it with Manuel Rivera, the Rochester schools superintendent who had been National Superintendent of the Year in 2006.

A Connecticut senator who has visited the Commonwealth is calling on Trump to appoint a czar to oversee recovery efforts.

Kaiman, who also gets paid $ 150,000 a year as Cuomo's amorphous Long Island Sandy recovery czar, negotiated in 2014 what he called a cost - neutral wage settlement with Nassau's public - employee unions.

Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, who represents the area, asked state health czar Howard Zucker.

On Wednesday, the state's subsidy czar pounded the table in response to questions from... Assemblyman Fred Thiele, an independent from Long Island who is hardly known as a firebrand.

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..

«The «disaster czar» would be a person who has tremendous experience in disaster relief, not an insider who's hand - picked by a government leader,» Haber told WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs, adding that it would be someone who knows how to behave before, during, and after a storm.

Kaloyeros, according to the complaint, allegedly orchestrated the hiring and firing of multiple firms that were participating in the project and awarded the most lucrative contract to a contractor who agreed to provide a $ 50 million loan to a non-profit organization connected to SUNY Poly and effectively controlled by the Nanotechnology czar.

But, Carol Browner, who will turn 53 tomorrow and headed the EPA during the Clinton administration, will now serve as the nation's first «energy czar,» or, formally, assistant to the president for energy and climate change.

Katrina then spoke about how besotted and charmed she was with a cute young fellow; Czar Khan who is the adorable 2 and 1/2 year old son of Farah Khan and whom she met while shooting for Farah's film Tees Maar Khan.

The Punisher, a crusading vigilante out to topple the crime czar (John Travolta) who murdered his family.

Smartly - directed action picture stars Jeff Wincott as a cop who risks it all to stop a group of dirty policemen who have worked out a look - the - other - way deal with a drug czar.

She was taken in by a «realtor» (Diego Luna of «Y tu Mamá También,» «Milk») who's related to a Mexican drug czar.

The previously announced recurring cast members include: Christian Slater as Elliot Decker, the school crossing guard and self - proclaimed «Safety Czar» of Jefferson G. County, who has made it his mission to protect the world from Milo; Vanessa Williams as Zack's mom Eileen Underwood; Sarah Chalke as science teacher Miss Murawski; Jemaine Clement as Dr. Zone, a popular television show character who travels through time with his trusty sidekick Time Ape; Chrissie Fit as Amanda Lopez, an overachieving perfectionist in Milo's class; Vincent Martella as Bradley Nicholson, Milo's envious and pessimistic classmate; Diedrich Bader as Milo's dad Martin Murphy; Pamela Adlon as Milo's mom Brigette Murphy; Kate Micucci as Milo's sister Sara Murphy; Mackenzie Phillips as Principal Elizabeth Milder; Dee Bradley Baker as Milo's dog Diogee; Brett Dalton as high - level time travel agent Brick; Gregory Michael Cipes as classmate Mort Schaeffer; Sophie Winkleman as Dr. Zone's sidekick Time Ape; Michael Culross as high school teacher Kyle Drako; and Kevin Michael Richardson as Coach Nolan Mitchell.

(Isaac's «Ex Machina» co-star Domhnall Gleeson, who's also been all over the place lately, is chilling as the First Order's military czar.)

Williams said that SB 5551 would subvert elected boards of education, remove transparency, curtail responsiveness to the community, repeal collective bargaining, and create a czar — who may be a charter school vendor — to oversee Network Schools.

That makes him the unofficial «charter czar,» the guy who now has the ability to bypass local school boards and authorize independent charter schools in Madison and Milwaukee.

In 2004, the National Education Association gave its prestigious Human Rights Award to Kevin Jennings, the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and the man who eventually became President Obama's school safety czar.

But the most - interesting piece came not from either Haimson or the generally stellar Carey or Noguera (whose idea of treating schools like hospitals is a good one, even if he can't get the rest of his ideas right), but from Thomas B. Fordham Institute education czar Mike Petrilli, who once again tried to defend the idea of rolling back No Child's powerful Adequate Yearly Progress accountability provisions (even if the approach taken by the administration is none to his liking).

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.

Ehrlich also co-authored a book, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, with the person, John Holdren, who continues the fight, but from a position of power as Obama's Science Czar.

His research has earned him the scorn of White House science czar John Holdren, who personally attacked Pielke's research last year.

Obama, who is rumored to be considering the creation of a cabinet - level position («climate czar») for guiding U.S. climate policy, has said repeatedly that climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world.

Paul Ehrlich, who, believe it or not, has made more false predictions of disaster, and is a mentor to Obama's political czar John Holdren.