What's the difference between chancellor and kanzlerin?

Chancellor


Definition:

  • (n.) A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
  • (2) The chancellor confirmed he would bring in a welfare cap of £119.5bn, with the state pension and unemployment benefits exempted from this.
  • (3) "At the moment there are about 1,600 criminal justice firms, and they all have a contract with the lord chancellor.
  • (4) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
  • (5) George Osborne’s eighth budget is unlikely to be a radical affair , as the state of the public finances and the upcoming EU referendum limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre.
  • (6) Even so, the release of the first-half figures could help clear the way for the chancellor, George Osborne, to start selling off the taxpayer’s 79% stake in the bank, a legacy of the institution’s 2008 bailout.
  • (7) The prime minister and chancellor threaten legal action over any losses incurred by British citizens as banks are nationalized.
  • (8) Turner was at a meeting last month where the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, clinched an agreement with the five biggest UK banks – Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Standard Chartered – to accept the G20 principles.
  • (9) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
  • (10) He poses a far greater risk to our security than any other Labour leader in my lifetime September 12, 2015 “Security” appears to be the new watchword of Cameron’s government – it was used six times by the prime minister in an article attacking Corbyn in the Times late last month, and eight times by the chancellor, George Osborne, in an article published in the Sun the following day.
  • (11) Imagine the uproar if a Labour chancellor had planned to borrow another £150bn to invest in jobs, infrastructure, training, childcare and house-building.
  • (12) Freedom of information documents obtained as part of the investigation show that the recently departed leader of the City corporation, Stuart Fraser, had contact with the chancellor, George Osborne, and other senior Treasury ministers and officials 22 times in the 14 months up to March this year.
  • (13) The chancellor has stated that such levies will also be introduced in France and Germany.
  • (14) The inference is that it is only because the chancellor is cutting the deficit, or trying to, at a time of depression that interest rates are not much higher.
  • (15) The first tranche of spending cuts was unveiled not by the chancellor, but by David Laws.
  • (16) The chancellor said the 2.5% cut in VAT to 15% would last for 13 months and form the centrepiece of a recovery programme which will pump £9.2bn into the economy in 2008 and a further £16.3bn in 2009-10.
  • (17) Climate change is also high on protesters’ and politicians’ agendas, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, called for the industrial powers to throw their weight behind a longstanding pledge to seek $100bn (£65bn) to help poor countries tackle climate change, agreed in Copenhagen in 2009.
  • (18) But after the Guardian reported that the chancellor is planning to reduce the 50p rate of tax for the highest earners , the budget could test the strength of Conservative support.
  • (19) The shadow chancellor suggested the new leader was so lost in thoughts of the last war , he couldn’t open his mouth.
  • (20) The former shadow chancellor Ed Balls said that a future Labour government would “press Europe to restore proper borders”.

Kanzlerin


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Merkel is known to be a keen mobile user and has been nicknamed "die Handy-Kanzlerin" ("Handy" being the German word for mobile phone).
  • (2) When Merkel took the stage at the CDU headquarters for one final time, she could barely get a word in for the euphoric masses clad in orange "Angie" T-shirts shouting her name ("Ruhig bleiben, Kanzlerin waehlen", a take on the Keep Calm and Carry On slogan, was another favourite).

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