(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.