Sentences with phrase «tsar on»

His remarks were seen as an offensive throwback to Thatcher - era harsh rhetoric, and are bound to lead to Labour calls for his dismissal as enterprise tsar on the grounds he is totally out of touch with the squeeze on living standards almost all voters are experiencing.

Not exact matches

That's hundreds of millions of times as much as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and roughly 163,000 times as much as the Soviet Union's test of Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961.

Who would have imagined that today I would be writing freely, praying freely, breathing freely, standing on free soil, while Zhou, once nicknamed China's «security tsar,» would be sentenced to life in prison for corruption by his political enemies?

It was filmed inside the Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg - a Russian Orthodox church built on the spot Tsar Nicholas II and his family were killed in 1918.

Of course, no one in Vermillion knew that jolly little Alexander Pell had started life as Sergei Degaev, the Russian revolutionary who, on December 16, 1883, achieved international fame for murdering Georgii Sudeikin, the all - powerful head of the Tsar's secret police.

Whereas after A.D. 1815 a Tsar of Russia had proposed to his fellow monarchs of Europe that they govern their states and their relations with one another on the basis of Christian principles, after A.D. 1914 a regime came into power which seeks to extirpate Christianity and to which some of the leading Christian virtues are anathema.

But his point on refusing a one star (brigadier) appointment to carry out the role of reserve «tsar» was its perceived inevitable failure.

For more than 15 years, policy «tsars» have been a growing, unrecognised and largely hidden source of influence on UK government ministers» decisions.

Labour's Twitter tsar, Tom Harris, added another Downfall spoof to the endless list already on the internet.

The impression of turmoil and confusion deepened on Friday, when the Labour peer Lord Adonis resigned as May's infrastructure tsar in protest at her handling of Brexit, which he described as «a dangerous populist and nationalist spasm worthy of Donald Trump».

As some Russian tsar said of the Ottoman empire in the nineteenth century, «We have a sick man on our hands».

Britain will become a «laughing stock» if a decision on building a third runway at Heathrow Airport is delayed further, the Government's own infrastructure tsar warned yesterday.

DNA testing for 17 Y - STR markers was conducted on the remains from Tsar Nicholas II and his son, the Tsarevich Alexei (sample 146.1 in the second grave).

The Witch writer / director Robert Eggers has been tapped to pen a six to eight episode miniseries based on the life of Grigori Rasputin, the «Mad Monk» who became one of Tsar Nicholas II's closest advisors.

EA also chatted about Battlefield 1's In the Name of the Tsar expansion, the next two Battlefield 1 expansions after that, new content for Battlefield 1 Premium players, FIFA 18, FIFA 18 on Switch, Madden NFL 18 and NBA Live 18.

Thanks to Malvo's Old Testament - tinged blackmail of God - fearing supermarket tsar Stavros Milos (which includes loosing a plague of locusts on his store and bathing him in pig's blood), we finally find out what happened to the briefcase full of cash that, in the film, was buried in the snow.

The government's social mobility tsar has criticised expected plans to lift the ban on opening new grammar schools, warning it would be a «disaster» for education in England.

Russia needed to secure a foothold in the east as well as securing the vast expanses of Siberia, so in 1891 Tsar Alexander III approved a plan for a trans - continental line linking Moscow and St Petersburg with Vladivostok on the Pacific coast, as this was the only year - round ice - free port in Russia.

Unleashing the full potential of the Tsar Bomba during a test would have yielded too much fallout, much like trying to tow 30,000 pounds without a commercial driver's license on public roads.

Fleming shows that the hapless tsar was ill equipped to discharge his duties, increasingly relying on Alexandra for guidance; unfortunately, at the same time, she was increasingly reliant on the counsel of the evil monk Rasputin.

Montefiore's second book on Stalin (following Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar) can be appreciated on so many levels — for its depth of research, for its detailed historical perspective and for giving us such an intimate look at Stalin's life.

The Russian Empire, whose Slavic Tsars had long considered themselves to be the protectors of the Orthodox Slavs of the Balkans, subsequently declared war on Austria - Hungary.

Come peek into the elaborate world of the Russian Tsars with the Winter Palace and Hermitage Museum, canal tour, Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood.

After travelling on Eurostar from St. Pancras International, to Brussels, then onwards by rail to Potsdam, Berlin and Warsaw, exploring the fascinating sights and monuments of these cities along the way, on day 6 it's time to board the famous Tsar's Gold Private Train in Moscow for the incredible 14 - day adventure that will end in the ancient and enigmatic city of Beijing.

Travel in luxury aboard the Tsar's Gold Private Train and experience Europe and Asia on one tour.

Also close by are the Russian Museum, the Church of the Saviour on Spilt Blood (a monument to the martyred Romanov tsar), St. Isaac's Cathedral, and the Mariinsky Theatre.

They had to make do with gold and silver plates before Europeans discovered the secret of making porcelain and the Tsars could eat on this china

Day 9 In Yekaterinburg, visit the preserved city and «fairy - tale» Church on the Blood, which commemorates the site where Russia's last Tsar was shot.

On this tour you will travel on some of the most exciting and iconic trains in the world, including the magnificent steam - hauled British Orient Express Pullman, the Venice Simplon - Orient - Express, the Tsar's Gold Private Train and the iconic American steam - driven Durango & Silverton RailroaOn this tour you will travel on some of the most exciting and iconic trains in the world, including the magnificent steam - hauled British Orient Express Pullman, the Venice Simplon - Orient - Express, the Tsar's Gold Private Train and the iconic American steam - driven Durango & Silverton Railroaon some of the most exciting and iconic trains in the world, including the magnificent steam - hauled British Orient Express Pullman, the Venice Simplon - Orient - Express, the Tsar's Gold Private Train and the iconic American steam - driven Durango & Silverton Railroad.

After some free time, we join the Tsar's Gold Private Train to embark on our incredible journey to Beijing.

Let the Tsar's Gold Train take you on an incredible adventure across almost half of the surface of the world from the ornate splendor of Moscow to the bustling beauty of modern Beijing, through remote Siberia, beautiful Mongolia and the vast landscapes of the Gobi Desert.

On Day 45 we arrive in Moscow, where we disembark the Tsar's Gold.

Tsar Hotels is situated in a prime location in the heart of Phalaborwa; on the doorstep of the Kruger...

While a visit must be paid to Church on the Blood — where the family of Tsar Nicholas II was murdered, the city is also a centre for culture and arts with several fine museums and theatres.

British Citizens require a transit visa to travel through Belarus on our «Waterways of the Tsars,» «Trans - Siberian Express», «Trans - Siberian - Moscow - Beijing» and «Around the World in 53 Days» holidays.

We visited Kizhi, Russia on The Waterways of the Tsars river cruise with Viking River Cruises and they always provide a local guide and in this case entertainment too.

The staff and guides on our Waterways of the Tsars cruise with Viking River were so above and beyond that they absolutely earned generous tips.

The shore excursion to the summer palace of Catherine the Great took us by surprise on day two of our Waterways of the Tsars cruise with Viking River.

If you're going on Waterways of the Tsars with Viking River there's a good chance that it will be a wonderful once in a lifetime trip.

At EA Play next month we should get the full details on the upcoming expansion In The Name Of The Tsar, which is scheduled to add the Russian army to the game.

Battlefield 1 «s next DLC, In the Name of The Tsar will release on September 19.

If you are looking to watch the In the Name of the Tsar livestream as soon as it starts, then make sure to tune in at 1:00 p.m. PT / 4:00 p.m. ET on September 5.

«Battlefield 1 In The Name Of The Tsar», the most extensive Battlefield expansion yet — and winner of the «Best Add - On / DLC» Gamescom Award — is now available...

It's no coincidence that Obama's Science tsar John Holdren, was a co-author with Paul Ehrlich whose book The Population Bomb was extremely influential on world thinking.

This is achieved through the cooperation of an autoregression forecasting algorithm, called Time Series AutoRegressive — TSAR (Koutroumbas et al. 2008), with the empirical Storm Time Ionospheric Model — STIM (Tsagouri & Belehaki 2006, 2008) that formulates the ionospheric storm - time response based on solar wind input, exploiting recent advances in ionospheric storm dynamics that correlate the ionospheric storm effects with solar wind parameters (e.g., the magnitude of the IMF and its rate of change as well as the IMF's orientation in the north - south direction).

He had also made himself an authority on military tactics, especially the élan of the cavalry charge: in 1877, he had travelled to Moscow to receive an award from the Russian tsar for his book History of Cavalry.

Work highlights Acted for Coalco on the sale of a 90 % stake in Tsar Square, Presnya City and Basmanny 5 projects to VTB Real Estate.

At CMS, highlights included advising Coalco Development on its sale of Tsar Square, Presnya City and Basmanny to VTB Real Estate for the construction of luxury residential complexes.

Vladimir Zenin is «an attentive, smart and talented lawyer who always finds an appropriate response to complicated matters»; he recently advised Coalco Development on its sale of a 90 % stake in Tsar Square to VTB Real Estate, and also acted for Sberbank on the acquisition of DocDoc.ru from Guard Capital.

In the last 18 months we've had revised adoption guidance from Government, new adoption scorecards, the appointment of an adoption Tsar, an adopters» charter, an expert working group on redesigning adoption, an action plan for adoption, a House of Lords select committee inquiry into adoption and fostering to adoption measures will be included in the forthcoming Children and Families Bill.