Sentences with phrase «time chancellor»

A graduate of MIT, Bacow served as its one - time chancellor and taught there for 24 years.

Borrowing is rising because the part - time chancellor's plan is failing.

The man once hailed as a pre-eminent strategist, and a possible successor to the Conservative throne, is now more commonly demonised as the «part - time chancellor».

Whatever the outcome, it remains clear that for the «part - time chancellor», the economy will certainly remain a full - time headache.

Miliband says Cameron's problems started with the part - time chancellor's budget.

Whether we're talking about the «squeezed middle», the «cost - of - living crisis» or cutting the «biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history», it's fair to say that many Brits will be feeling pretty taxed already by the time the chancellor stands up to deliver his budget speech on Wednesday.

«The problems started months ago with the part - time chancellor's Budget.»

Philip Hammond's appointment reinforces the thrust of a return to «grown up politics» and will see the welcome return of a full time chancellor focused on the enormous financial challenges facing this country, some exacerbated by Osborne and many simply not tackled.

Business secretary Vince Cable told the Financial Times the chancellor should borrow more to fund increased capital spending.

Not exact matches

University chancellor Dr. Mark A. Emmert said at the time, «I'd like to thank Mr. O'Neal for dramatically increasing the starting salary of this graduating class.»

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.»

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.

We spend time optimising what is held in SIPPs, ISAs and outside tax shelters, make sure we use our CGT allowances (and try not to go over), then along comes inheritance tax, or a chancellor moves the goalposts.

It makes me shudder that every time we talk about money in our Bible study group, one person says «ah but are we not told to favor kith and kin, it does not surprise me that saying comes from our Germanic blood, as can be seen from the German chancellor Angela Mercoles attitude to Europe, lets not go there.

Had history turned out somewhat differently, one could imagine the presence of Wilhelm Himmler, chancellor of Germany and grandson of the other Himmler who, as Time might put it, was the mastermind of Germany's «controversial population policy in the 1940s.»

It was this time last year that then chancellor George Osborne announced his intention to levy a sugar tax on the soft drinks industry and it is expected those levy rates will be announced today.

It was typical railroading from a man known as «Maximum John» during his time as DA, and surely a rare instance of a university system chancellor making decisions about a mascot.

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.

For example, German chancellor Angela Merkel repeated several times that she would greatly prefer a privileged partnership for Turkey, even at times when many laws in Turkey were changed to be in line with EU laws (for example, abolishment of death penalty).

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

Today he tells the Financial Times that he will be «the most business - friendly mayor of all time,» and outlines why he is opposed to a number of tax - raising proposals by the new shadow chancellor John McDonnell.

Anyone who spends any time with Corbyn's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, would discern a hunger to wield power in government as he once did on the much smaller stage of the Greater London Council.

«This was a make or break budget coming at a critical time in the recovery and the chancellor has focussed his firepower on areas that have the potential to lock in growth.

The word «change» appeared many times in the chancellor's remarks.

«Britain needs an economic heavyweight fighting for Britain in these bleak times not a dilettante playing at being chancellor.

Then there is the Bethlehem stable imagery, which Dr Giles Fraser alluded to at the time of his resignation as chancellor of St Paul's, when he said that he could imagine Jesus being born in the camp.

Explaining his plans for a married couples allowance, shadow chancellor George Osborne told the Times the policy was about «supporting commitment».

The Regents will see further change when the three new members take their seats under a new chancellor and vice chancellor, marking the end of an era in New York State education, and, according to education policymakers, a new time of thoughtful progression.

And while senators chastised de Blasio for not testifying for a second time, some asked Fariña questions that were, word - for - word, identical to those asked of the mayor and chancellor during the Albany hearing.

There is no alternative to Ed Balls as shadow chancellor at this time of national emergency.

Coincidentally, the chancellor also envisions a similar boost in spending — this time of # 2 billion — for the health service.

Ministers have put forward just # 2.5 billion of the # 11.5 billion of spending cuts sought by chancellor George Osborne, according to the Financial Times.

Government information released yesterday showed chancellor George Osborne had met News International representatives 16 times since the general election.

To ensure firms could take advantage of this additional research investment, the chancellor announced a review of intellectual property law, to be headed by former Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers.

The timing is perfect for the most political of chancellors to deliver an election winning set of announcements.

POLITICO New York asked Milliken Wednesday if he would accept a similar role once his time as chancellor ends.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said that people were relying on Labour to tackle NHS waiting times and zero - hours contracts, and to get the deficit down in a fair way while delivering real change and rising living standards.

By the next day, Balls upbraided the chancellor for it in the Commons, in the worst - tempered parliamentary debate for a very long time.

Having spent the whole of last year being hammered for providing a tax cut for millionaires, the chancellor may be feeling like he wants to dodge the bullet this time around.

Surprising, because its author is, by common consent, one of the most dull and uncharismatic chancellors of recent times.

«I can't remember the last time I bought a pasty at Greggs,» the chancellor admitted to Labour MP John Mann, who suggested that was part of the problem with his approach to the economy.

Meanwhile, chancellor Alistair Darling found himself at the centre of the storm today, after reports in the Telegraph indicated he claimed parliamentary expenses on two homes at the same time.

The timing could not be worse for Corbyn and the suggestion from his shadow chancellor that opponents somehow temporarily move to the backbenches to express criticism of the leaders is, at best naive, and at worst, completely ludicrous.

12:01 - Meanwhile the chancellor has just tweeted for the second time.

Liam Fox, in an article in the Financial Times, called on the chancellor to cut taxes on business to secure growth, echoing the CBI's call for «targeted and modest» tax cuts.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls gives his take on David Cameron's veto in last week's European summit in an interview with the Financial Times:

«We've seen a chancellor and a prime minister playing politics with the Budget at a time when we have one of the most serious financial crises this country's ever faced.»

Darling's bemusement is compounded in summer 2008, when Brown says there will be an economic recovery in six months» time and secretly creates his own personal economic policy team that did not discuss anything at all with Darling, the chancellor of the Exchequer.

This time around, a new board will vote on whether to keep the city schools chancellor, Carmen Fariña, and will make preparations for school board elections in May 2018.