Sentences with phrase «with czar»

Born Ivan Gratianovitch Dombrowsky in Kiev, Ukraine, to a family belonging to the hereditary Polish nobility, John Graham was trained in the law and served with the Czar's forces in World War I.

I'm with Czar Nicholas, that great Bad Motherfucker Of All Russia, on this one.

I would like to see the Bummer exposed with his czars, executive orders, oh and that «transparent» administration he has.

In the war's fire, the last great medieval holdovers had melted away, taking with them czars, emperors and the petty nobility of dozens of states.

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.

I spoke to Eric, and arranged for him to meet with Elysa Torres, our human resources manager and Sara Jane Whitman Ramos, our chief culture czar.

«We have impressed upon (U.S. trade czar Robert) Lighthizer, almost on a weekly basis, how important it is to get the dairy situation (settled) with Canada.

Premier Li Keqiang's job is also on the line, with some suggesting that Wang may replace the economic czar.

He based that on what he said were weekly meetings with U.S. trade czar Robert Lighthizer.

The NAFTA renegotiation survived its sixth round of talks in Montreal, with U.S. trade czar Robert Lighthizer saying enough progress was made to push forward despite American dissatisfaction with some Canadian proposals.

He had hoped for a health czar role — another unorthodox, outside - the - box billionaire appointment by Trump — but, like others leaving Trump Tower, he left with empty pockets after two meetings there.

Conditions were bad enough under the Czars but under Communism they have become worse because the Russians, whether White or Red, have always looked upon Islam with hatred.

Oh my word, Mark opens his Gospel with very political propaganda, but it's about Jesus not the czars.

Men with a vision of a new thing renounced the sovereignty of a George III, took arms against the tyranny of Louis XIV, and defied and displaced the despotism of the Russian Czar.

The government knows all this, the governors conceal it, the Senate connives at it, the ministers say nothing; the czar, and the synod, the landowners and the police all agree with Selifan [from Dead Souls]: «Why not thrash a peasant?

Twenty three years later, all of the Eastern Catholic Churches can breathe a sigh of relief that the Church that co-operated in the destruction of Eastern Catholic Churches under the Czars and under Stalin, has finally come into line with world Orthodoxy and no longer denies their very right to live.

The Czarina was so delighted with the gift that the Czar ordered Fabergé to design a new egg every Easter.

And with the Eagles having just won Super Bowl LII, lest we forget Chip Kelly's inspiration on his lone 4/20 as Philly's personnel czar to bring Tebow on board.

Between 9:25 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Central time, draft czar Stephen Jones had three conversations with Seattle.

The Albany Housing Authority hired Norstar Development for the project — a Canada - based company with significant operations in Buffalo and is led in the U.S. by Richard Higgins, a former state housing czar under Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Julie Menin — whom de Blasio picked as his Department of Consumer Affairs commissioner and more recently as the city's film czar — co-hosted a fundraiser with lawyer Richard Emery on Oct. 23, 2013, at the $ 15 million West Village home of banker Ciaran O'Kelly.

During a Monday afternoon press conference with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Trump was asked whether he still had confidence in Marino for the position sometimes called the nation's «drug czar.»

(CNN)- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will name a «border czar» on Wednesday to help deal with the drug cartel violence that has exploded along the U.S. - Mexico border, according to several administration officials.

Greater collaboration with those groups» leaders, including the creation of a cabinet - level nonprofits czar, Hager said, would address those issues.

Russia has unfavorable economic factors - the lack of inter-country navigation combined with out of date technological base combined with entrenched culture of corruption means far more relative expenses and greater friction in economic activity and far lower average standards of living (not exactly helped by 70 years of Socialism; but Russia was economically screwed over by the Czars for centuries before that; and by post-Soviet governments after that too).

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.

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.

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.

Republican WNY Assemblyman Ray Walter tangled at length with the state's economic development czar, Howard Zemsky, over the level of credit taken by Cuomo in the Buffalo area's employment health.

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.

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.

With less than two months remaining in his tenure as attorney general, Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo has filed two lawsuits against President Obama's former car czar, Steve Rattner, alleging he paid kickbacks in order to obtain $ 150 million in investments in his private equity firm, Quadrangle Group, from the state pension fund.

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..

Bill Weihl, Google's «clean energy czar,» said his company undertook the study out of a combination of self - interest, commitment to cleaner energy, and frustration with a national energy policy debate that seems to ask a lot of wrong questions.

He's also likely to spur the FDA to follow the course laid out by agency cancer czar Richard Pazdur in speeding new approvals, possibly setting up a special unit aimed at orphan drugs to hasten OKs with smaller, better designed clinical trials.

But the Administration pushed back on the czar, among other things, and with the economic chaos this fall, the bill never made it through.

Our Planetary Radio Live celebration of Mars rover Curiosity at Planetfest continues with more from space historian Andrew Chaikin, former NASA Mars czar Scott Hubbard and Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye the Science Guy.

After launching Christian Lacroix at Patou, Picart boldly advised Bernard Arnault, fashion's financial czar, to start an haute couture line with Lacroix in 1986.

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.

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.

Dovetailing with del Toro's story, a new U.S. drug czar's (Michael Douglas) daughter (Erika Christensen) falls prey to addiction, DEA agents (Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman) investigate a cocaine - distribution kingpin, and that kingpin's pregnant wife (Catherine Zeta Jones) goes from arm candy to active predator.

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.

After stumbling through their own in - house CGI animated features, Disney (with a little guidance from Pixar's creative leader and new Disney animation czar John Lasseter) finally finds the right balance of classic animation magic and contemporary sensibility with this comic musical adventure version of the «Rapunzel» fairy tale.

GLEP executive director Gary Naeyaert criticized the proposal as «anti-choice» with «czar - like power» that would take decisionmaking away from families and place it in the hands of unelected bureaucrats.

Diane Ravitch took some parting shots at Joel Klein last week with a short post on the New York Review of Books» blog headlined «New York's New School Czar.»

In spite of these circumstances, County Executive Chris Abele and his school takeover Czar, Demond Means, have decided to go along with the plans of conservative, suburban state legislators with a history of introducing racist legislation.

The hearings are raucous with uncomfortable questions neither the czar nor the county executive want to answer.

Which is the problem: Petrilli's underlying thesis (one peddled last year by his tag - team partner, American Enterprise Institute education czar Rick Hess, in his piece with Linda Darling - Hammond) isn't exactly so.

All Cadillac needs now is an interior - detail czar with enough confidence to fend off the cost accountants in order to make the brand's cars feel as finely honed inside as their European opponents.

A lifelong interest with all things tech - related has seen Lord Sugar become involved with home computing, producing satellite dishes and an appointment to the House of Lords as Enterprise Czar.