(n.) A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sadiq Khan might be appointing a “night czar” for London , but the recent closure of Fabric is part of a wider trend of disappearing nightlife.
(2) CZAR is similar in overall organization to the other two SL-RNA-associated elements.
(3) Every incoming mayor of New York declares his intentions for a vast rodenticide – Giuliani even appointed a “rat czar” to oversee the carnage – only to leave the next guy even more to deal with.
(4) But as Associated Press detailed this weekend , the five members he put on the board are largely Democratic loyalists if not hard-core Obama loyalists: "Four of the five review panel members previously worked for Democratic administrations: Peter Swire, former Office of Management and Budget privacy director under President Bill Clinton; Michael Morell, Obama's former deputy CIA director; Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism coordinator under Clinton and later for President George W. Bush; and Cass Sunstein, Obama's former regulatory czar.
(5) However, sources said that none of the parties involved in previous negotiations – including Miller, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman or David Cameron's policy czar Oliver Letwin, who came up with the concept of a royal charter to underpin a new press watchdog – will be involved.
(6) History will remember it as a significant inflection point,” said Norm Eisen , former ethics czar under Barack Obama.
(7) The White House is reversing its previous insistence that government departments were coordinating the federal response to the presence of Ebola in the US successfully even without a single figurehead heading up the effort and appointing a so-called Ebola “czar”.
(8) Sunstein, a Harvard law school professor who has been described as an intellectual inspiration for Obama, only left his job as White House's "regulatory czar" last year.
(9) A year ago, the Librarian of Congress – James Billington, an 84-year-old copyright czar of our digital age – issued a ruling that made it illegal for an American to unlock his or her smartphone, potentially with up to five years in prison and $500,000 on the line (or at least with a civil penalty).
(10) Economic czar George Jackson put it plainly when he said of gentrification: “ Bring it on .” And so the city has.
(11) Obama has also chosen to create a new position of White House energy czar.
(12) But to dream about progress beyond the Holder era misses the fundamental point: the Cossacks work for the Czar.
(13) The United Nations' drugs czar told Nato that Afghan insurgents were withholding thousands of tonnes of heroin and treating their drugs like "savings accounts" to manipulate street prices in the west, according to a leaked US cable.
(14) Under the czars, imperial Russia extended its reach over time.
(15) Barack Obama's former "car czar" has attacked the "stunningly poor management" he encountered at Detroit's carmakers as he worked to avert a collapse of America's biggest auto firms earlier this year.
(16) Kerry McCarthy, Labour's new media campaign spokesperson – or "Twitter Czar", as reporters prefer to call her – is franker about Sarah Brown's value.
(17) The White House spokesman, Josh Earnest, resisted calls for a single “Ebola czar” to be placed in charge of the federal response on Wednesday, claiming “people should be encouraged that the government is demonstrating a tenacious adaptive response [to Ebola]” among a range of federal agencies.
(18) He is the government's board diversity czar and is calling for more women in boardrooms.
(19) Annas criticizes Webster for what he sees as the politicization of the Court, the Chief Justice's failure to assert leadership and remove the abortion debate from the political arena, and the implicit appointment of one Justice as "abortion czar" on a Court where four Justices seem prepared to uphold Roe, and four prepared to reverse or curtail the 1973 decision.
(20) Nepotism and election fraud have endured,” he said, adding that “power abuse, corruption as well as legal and disciplinary violations have been spreading.” In his comments, Xi made special reference to several toppled officials punished for corruption, including former security czar Zhou Yongkang , who state media has previously accused of plotting to challenge the country’s leaders.
Tsar
Definition:
(n.) The title of the emperor of Russia. See Czar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The move follows criticism from the Conservative party that its presenter Lord Sugar's role as the government's enterprise tsar compromised the BBC's political impartiality .
(2) His brief grew and then shrank with his appointment as the BBC's "teen tsar" overseeing BBC Switch, axed as part of director general Mark Thompson's strategy review last year.
(3) Now President Barack Obama's drug tsar, Gil Kerlikowske, carefully describes America's own war on drugs as "unhelpful".
(4) Following Mexico's example, the Honduran president, Porfirio Lobo, has ordered the military to join the crackdown on organised crime , and the country's latest anti-drug tsar, Colonel Isaac Santos, was drafted in from the army.
(5) Camouflaged riot police bearing rubber truncheons hold back protesters begging the tsar for bread.
(6) Most important, given the available tools, not even the most brilliant economic tsar could not have made the eurozone prosper.
(7) Richards, an oncologist who was previously the government's cancer tsar, said: "If you are diagnosed with cancer, you are entitled to think that your hospital will do all they can to ensure you get the treatment you need as soon as possible.
(8) When offered the job of DfE tsar, she did therefore wonder “if maybe someone hadn’t done their homework”.
(9) When she died, Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, and his four brothers carried her coffin.
(10) The Hermitage has been attempting to boost its standing in the modern art world, building upon a world-renowned collection of ancient and impressionist art housed in a complex including the tsars' winter palace.
(11) Lord Wei of Shoreditch, who was given a Tory peerage last year and a desk in the Cabinet Office as the "big society tsar", is to reduce his hours on the project from three days a week to two, to allow him to see his family more and to take on other jobs to pay the bills.
(12) Portas, a broadcaster, fashion designer and the coalition’s former high street tsar, has told of how her brother, Lawrence Newton, helped her and Melanie Rickey to conceive two-year-old Horatio.
(13) US pay tsar names and shames President Obama's Wall Street pay tsar today named and shamed 17 US banks that had to be bailed out by the US government for overpaying their executives during the financial crisis.
(14) S IS FOR STALIN Journalists loved spotting the great footballing dictator with a copy of Simon Sebag Montefiore's Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar in his hand a few years ago.
(15) The health secretary has decided to reprieve England's 28 NHS cancer networks after MPs of all parties, as well as leading charities and the government's own cancer tsar, warned that letting them disappear would damage both patient care and the drive to cut the number of cancer-related deaths.
(16) KGB-style bodyguards clear Kremlin halls for the tsar's arrival.
(17) • Costas Lapavitsas is professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London Phillip Inman: Optimism set against a gamble Phillip Inman Photograph: guardian.co.uk It is possible that a bailout for Spain, an agreement for a eurozone-wide banking union and the appointment of a sword-wielding budget tsar will draw a line under the current crisis.
(18) Her mother the Duchess of Kent had wanted to call her Georgiana Charlotte Augusta Alexandrina Victoria, but was overruled by a cantankerous Prince Regent, the future George IV, who dictated during the ceremony that she be called Alexandrina Victoria instead in tribute to the Russian Tsar Alexander I.
(19) The office of White House drug tsar, Gil Kerlikowske, said the report was misguided.
(20) Also lined up by the Tories is Michelle Mone, the founder of the Ultimo lingerie brand , to become a peer just weeks after she was appointed as the government’s new entrepreneurship tsar for areas of high unemployment.