(n.) Government by three in coalition or association; the term of such a government.
(n.) A coalition or association of three in office or authority; especially, the union of three men who obtained the government of the Roman empire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Guardiola has ever-so-slightly strayed away from what has made Barcelona so brilliant now, and there are certainly questions to be asked about how Busquets-Iniesta-Xavi triumvirate has been disrupted by Cesc Fabregas.
(2) A triumvirate of Senators — Democrat John Kerry, Republican Lindsey Graham, and Independent Joe Lieberman — are working to craft a climate change bill they think would have a good chance of getting support from Republican as well as Democratic Senators.
(3) What it was not expecting was that the committee had been split over the increase in new electronic money needed to prevent inflation undershooting its 2% target, with the governor, Mervyn King , leading a triumvirate calling for a £75bn boost.
(4) In a 1962 issue of Vogue, Siriol Hugh-Jones, the magazine's former features editor, unleashed a tirade of abuse on that triumvirate of women writers: Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark and Lessing.
(5) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
(6) Care should be provided by a triumvirate of physicians to include and otolaryngologist, a pediatrician, and an anesthesiologist.
(7) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(8) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Monday February 5 2007 The word for a set of three reports is trilogy, not triumvirate, as we said in the article below.
(9) That picture, with his wife Mary, is being shown at the National Portrait Gallery with five more of the double portraits, including one of the third of the triumvirate of great British painters, Howard Hodgkin.
(10) Boyd was informed of Drake’s talents by Hutchings, went down to see for himself and at once became the third figure of the Drake-Kirby-Joe Boyd triumvirate which created … well first, of course, there was Five Leaves Left.
(11) As recently as three weeks ago Lord Glasman was pushing the Labour leader to take on a triumvirate of power – Murdoch, the unions and the City of London.
(12) The market-dominating BBC triumvirate of Casualty, Holby City and Doctors are now complemented by period variants Call The Midwife and The Indian Doctor, forged on the same nostalgic anvil as ITV's 60s-set The Royal (which ran for 87 episodes).
(13) This means the new landscape of Stonehenge embodies modern Mammon's triumvirate of commoditisation, gambling and charity, just as it once did Trinitarian ideas of transcendence and immanence.
(14) It was a 10th successive win for Gareth Southgate’s team who , leading 2-1 from the first leg at Molineux, took the sting out of a potentially hostile occasion by dominating possession and playing their way through the impressive midfield triumvirate of Hughes, Jake Forster-Caskey and the deliciously talented Tom Carroll.
(15) US diplomats formed a triumvirate with their UN and Russian counterparts and communicated regularly to address problems as they arose.
(16) Mesut Özil’s starting position was essentially that of a second striker and, although it would be an exaggeration to say the high-pressing style rattled their opponents, it was not until the final moments of the first half that the Messi-Neymar-Suárez triumvirate started to menace.
(17) Quite sensible diplomatic proposals by the African Union, accepted in principle by Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, were ignored by the imperial triumvirate, as Africa specialist Alex de Waal reviews.
(18) This election has its fair share of cranks, the obligatory Monster Raving Loonies, a guy campaigning to save local pubs (to give the full triumvirate of endangered pleasures, it's the Beer, Baccy and Crumpets party).
(19) Under Sisi’s rule, a familiar triumvirate of army generals, international capital and western political support has once again coalesced to shield the existing state from further storms.
(20) It is understood Downing Street is being the least intractable government player in the negotiations between the companies and the crucial state triumvirate of the UK, France and Germany.
Troika
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(2) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(3) In the midst of this catastrophe, the troika is insisting on further austerity to achieve massive primary budget surpluses of 3% in 2015, 4.5% in 2016 and even more in future years.
(4) It means that Ireland will make a clean exit from its €85bn financial assistance programme, which ends on 15th Decembe r. It has hit the targets set by its troika of lenders, and Kenny's government must be confident that it can walk alone.
(5) Consider the open joke that was the repeated European bank stress tests ; the foot-dragging of the central bankers to quell financial panic; the IMF report last week showing that even if Greece took the troika’s medicine it would still be lumbered with “unsustainable” debt .
(6) We also hear that Troika officials have been rather surprised by the latest talk about Greece potentially handing Germany a bill for outstanding war reparations .
(7) The EU, ECB and IMF, the troika of bodies keeping the debt-stricken Greek economy afloat, have signalled in no uncertain terms that they want some €8bn of the nearly €12bn package to come from pension and pay cuts, arguing that this will be the fastest way to get the best results.
(8) The problem lies in the terms of “reform” that are being demanded by the troika.
(9) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
(10) Photo: Reuters Updated at 1.06pm GMT 12.17pm GMT The troika of lenders - the ECB, IMF and EU - have issued their statement on Ireland after the country successfully completed the final review of its €85bn bailout .
(11) The commission, a member of the troika that bailed out Greece, alongside the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, with packages worth more than €200bn, said it believed the country's debts were sustainable.
(12) The return of a government headed by, for example, the centre-right New Democracy, would open up the possibility that Athens would sue for peace on the terms demanded by the troika.
(13) The president, however, has not simply expressed “grave reservations” about whether this grouping should take power; he has blocked it on the grounds that this is “the worst moment for a radical change” and is trying to install a pro-troika government led by the very centre-right forces that the electorate has rejected.
(14) But the only thing it has achieved is the pre-legislation of harsh measures that the troika [European commission, European Central Bank and IMF] will approve when it returns.” “What we are seeing is a war of propaganda, a lot of doublespeak,” Dimitris Tsiodras, spokesman of the centrist Potami party told the Guardian.
(15) Athens is not only dependent on rescue funds from its "troika" of creditors – the European Union, the European Central Bank and the IMF – that rushed to prop up its ailing economy in May 2010.
(16) This week Athens was granted a two-month extension of its bailout programme by the EU, European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund, its “troika” of creditors, after negotiations aimed at taking Greece into a “post-bailout” era stalled.
(17) After a meeting lasting more than two hours inside the building, the officials–from the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, known as the troika–snuck out of the ministry via an external fire escape, thereby avoiding the front entrance.
(18) The leftwing party has vowed to stop dealing with the “troika” - the European commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - and appeal directly to European leaders to ease the harsh austerity measures imposed on Greece.
(19) If Spain collapses, it will take a large portion of the major European banks with it; this is why the Troika backed off from forcing Spain into a bailout programme.
(20) Clearly, it is not for lack of resources that the troika is heading for another showdown with Greece as the economy shrinks a projected 7% this year: the few billion euros at stake in the forced budget tightening for the next two years are pocket change for the European authorities but will mean more pain and unemployment for the Greek people.