(1) Illustration: SCIAMMARELLA Angela Merkel's desk is dominated by a portrait of Catherine II, the great German tsarina who began a written correspondence with Voltaire.
(2) There was a mixed response to both choices - unlike the near universal acclaim from greens this week for Obama's announcement of the Nobel laureate, Steven Chu , as energy secretary, and the Al Gore supporter, Carol Browner, as the new White House climate "tsarina".
(3) In a sense, these ghost cities resemble the Russian empire’s Potemkin villages, built to create an impressive illusion for the passing tsarina; but China’s ghost cities are real and were presumably meant to do more than flatter the country’s leaders.
(4) The First Physician at the court of the Tsarina Elisabeth, Herman Kaau Boerhaave, acting in his capacity as director of the Medical Chancelry at Petersburg (the Russian medical supervising board), had Hillmer expelled from the Russian empire.
(5) On the campaign trail, President Barack Obama set his administration a tough environmental agenda that includes: • ensuring that 10% of US electricity supply comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25% by 2025 • introducing a cap-and-trade programme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050 • the creation of 5m new jobs by investing $150bn in green technology companies over the next 10 years • target to save more oil than US imports from the Middle East and Venezuela within 10 years • have 1m plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015 To achieve these ambitious targets, the 44th president of the United States has enlisted the following scientists, politicians and advisers: Carol Browner, assistant to the president for energy and climate change The new post of "climate tsarina" in the Obama administration went to the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator.
(6) His choice of the physicist Steve Chu as his energy secretary and the veteran regulator Carol Browner for the newly created White House post of "climate tsarina" received almost unanimously positive response from environmentalists.
(7) The Tsarina suppressed the book, which contained case reports on 125 of Hillmer's patients.
(8) Few have ever accused Eric Pickles or the government's "troubled families" tsarina, Louise Casey, of being slow to point the finger.
(9) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is currently the economics tsarina in Nigeria.
Tzarina
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Tzaritza
Example Sentences:
(1) For instance, Wanda is spoken of as a tzarina, a Russian queen.