Sentences with phrase «first chancellor»

He was the first chancellor appointed by the mayor and, as such, was answerable only to him, which gave him power and security.

She is the first chancellor in more than a decade who didn't need a state waiver to take the job.

She was the first chancellor in almost two decades who met all the formal requirements for the job and didn't need a state waiver.

He is the first chancellor in 35 years to preside over a double - dip recession.

Q: You are the first chancellor since Neville Chamberlain to have seen food banks set up.

Which means he is the first chancellor since Lamont to have any kind of economics degree....

Her advocacy for youth includes providing an educational alternative in the form of Edge Hill University, where she is a Professor of Public Understanding of Science, as well as serving as the school's first chancellor.

Not exact matches

The Autumn Statement is a mini-budget in which the chancellor updates the country on the government's taxation and spending plans, and it will be the new cabinet's first major economic announcement since May took over as prime minister.

An object lesson arrived in 2005, after her first run to become chancellor.

David Sobey served as the Halifax university's first lay chancellor from 2008 to 2010, and son Paul is following in his footsteps.

Things have indeed changed since the time when Otto von Bismark, the chancellor of the German First Reich, arrogantly opined that «the whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.»

James Kirkland, Vanderbilt's first lay chancellor, was acting quite within the mainstream of his peer institutions when he drew his board away from the bishops in 1910.

Stopping the runs permanently was an idea so distasteful that one of John T. Montford's first acts after being named chancellor in 1996 was to disband the Masked Rider Committee and instruct the Rider to ride after a score in a game that October.

I hope prayer works... The PM has the perfect opportunity thanks to the hard work of the chancellor to win an overall majority for the first time since 1992.

Clegg — too weak or unprincipled to stop the chancellor doing it the first time round - now makes a promise to prevent something which he knows has no chance of taking place.

This is my first autumn statement as chancellor.

The first is the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell and the other is the deputy leader, Tom Watson.

Labour's Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the Bank of England may have to intervene to shore up the pound, which lost 3 % within moments of the first result showing a strong result for Leave in Sunderland and fell as much as 6.5 % against the euro.

The first victim of the chancellor's performance has been his own reputation.

It's not the first time that the higher courts have highlighted the current lord chancellor's legal «misunderstandings».

He says Miliband is trapped by having a shadow chancellor who was responsible for the mess in the first place.

At one of his first meetings with de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, to discuss the job of New York City schools chancellor, Carranza serenaded them with a mariachi song: «Maria Elena.»

First, and foremost there is no limit on the number of terms the chancellor can take in Germany, other countries use this mechanism to limit the length of a premiership.

Brandt, the first left - wing German chancellor in decades, is brought down by the scandal of his nobody assistant.

Ed Miliband responded with an unusually pugnacious response targeting the Tory front bench's personal tax changes, dismissing Osborne as a «downgraded chancellor» whose only upgrade had been a legitimate boost from a second - to first - class ticket.

Kristina Johnson, an engineer who developed technology critical to 3 - D movies and served as under secretary in the U.S. Energy Department before founding a hydroelectric company, will be appointed chancellor of the SUNY, replacing outgoing Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, the first woman to hold the post.

De Blasio and Carranza entered City Hall together for an announcement that was scheduled to take place in the Blue Room, the same spot where, last Thursday, a testy and embarrassed mayor fielded questions from reporters about the televised rejection by his first choice for chancellor, Carvalho.

The former shadow chancellor may not look much like Russell Crowe at first glance but there is a comparison to be made.

These are the first schools, charter or otherwise, closed by chancellor Carmen Fariña during her tenure.

The two - year working - age benefits freeze takes # 3.2 bn a year off the welfare bill by 2017 - 18, the first step of the chancellor's commitment to wipe # 12bn more from the annual welfare bill.

He knows it is fifty years since anyone won the leadership of an incumbent party — and inherited Number Ten - without first serving as chancellor.

This was David Cameron's first opportunity to bash Ed Balls since the shadow chancellor's autumn statement howler last week.

One of the report's authors, Thomas Pope, said: «The new chancellor's first fiscal event will not be easy.

It is an account, relying on contemporary vivid emails, of the minute - by - minute battle inside Downing Street in the first week of September 2006 to stop supporters of the chancellor, Gordon Brown, forcing Tony Blair to quit after nine years as prime minister and three election victories.

In one of his first official decisions as the city's new schools chancellor, Richard Carranza sided with the status quo, putting adults» interests over kids» education.

The first secretary attacked shadow chancellor George Osborne's own assessment of the public finances, calling his Mais lecture «longer on assertion than specific proposals».

Johnson, who grew up in Denver, Colo., will be SUNY's first openly gay chancellor.

The chancellor now carries the title of first secretary of state as an acknowledgment of that reality.

The move by the chancellor comes after the prime minister admitted for the first time on Tuesday that the government would have to begin cutting spending in some areas.

Dennis Walcott spent his first day as chancellor - designee on a City Council hot seat on April 8, as members of the Education Committee grilled him on the mayor's plan to lay off thousands of teachers.

Monday morning, the Regents» new chancellor, Betty Rosa of the Bronx, announced Johnson's appointment in her first official act as the panel's leader.

When Cameron's future wife Samantha first started dating Cameron in the early 1990s, he was an adviser to the then chancellor, Norman Lamont.

New York City's new schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, got his first full taste of the job on Monday, as he visited classrooms in the Bronx to highlight the agenda of his boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio.

But it wasn't clear whether the prime minister, chancellor and first secretary of state were managing to stay afloat.

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

The lord chancellor is expected to outline his first policies later today and it is widely expected they will address prison overcrowding.

First we must fight this double whammy of unfair cuts being forced upon them and, second, we need to push for improvements to the chancellor's living wage proposal so that low paid workers genuinely are better off.»

Mr Cable said: «By failing to properly consult business in the first instance over these reforms, the chancellor showed total ineptitude.

New York City's new schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, got his first full taste of the job yesterday, as he visited classrooms in the Bronx to highlight the agenda of his boss, de Blasio.

Nolan at one point noted that Farina is the «first bilingual chancellor» for city schools, a point Arroyo argued, saying there had been six chancellors who spoke multiple languages.