How To Use Czar In A Sentence

The czar looked a bit edgy, but his son the czarevich seemed confident.
Born Princess Sophia of the minor German principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, reared by an ambitious and self-centered mother, she was plucked out of near obscurity by the Russian czarina, Elizabeth, in 1744 as a bride for the heir to the Russian throne, Peter III. The Rise Of an Empress
The idea of absolute state sovereignty is relatively new, and it derives from agreements among kings, emperors, kaisers, and czars for their mutual benefit.
He caps them with the theme rewritten as a polka/waltz, a tango, a czardas, in ragtime, and ‘in the style of film music.’
Neither is Powell slated to be the Attorney General, where he may choose the civil rights czar, who carves the policy groove on race in the Justice Department.

I mean, everyone always seems to me throws out the term czar when they don't know what else to do. CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2008
Hadn't the Russians decided that Siberia-the old barless prison state of the czars and early Communists-was a more practical frontier than the moon? If the Stars are Gods
In the early 20th century, the czar called the Duma together and dissolved it at will.
To a certain extent undoubtedly this may be traced back to the new czar's personal relations with the rulers of other nations; for the czarina was a sister of The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers
He spent a decade toiling away as frontman for under- appreciated alt-rock band the Czars before finally gaining traction as a solo artist with last year's Queen Of Denmark, a collaboration with the band Midlake that rather outshone their own lacklustre recent album. This week's new live music
The term "czar" dates back to Franklin Roosevelt's administration. GOP lawmaker blasts Obama for ignoring Congress on 'czars'
COSTELLO: But the University of Virginia's Larry Sabato, who wrote the "Year of Obama" says the title czar is mostly to make the tough government job sound more attractive. CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2009
Just minutes before, his sister Erica has finished leading a czardas with a zest that might make any Mittel European homesick.
That distinguishes him from his predecessor Alan Greenspan, who in 18 years turned his chairmanship into a czardom. The Money Man
Clinton's AIDS "czar" resigned after being criticized by gay activists for being weak.
Regarding regulatory czar Cass Sunstein's Aug. 23 op-ed, "Washington Is Eliminating Red Tape" : The savings outlined by Mr. Sunstein don't even represent one-quarter of 1% of total private-sector compliance costs—and that assumes that the savings are realized and not just bureaucratic finagling for political purposes. Mr. Sunstein Can't Be Serious About Cutting Red Tape
He announced his availability to serve as energy czar in the new administration.
Council, whether, even at this point, they should untread their steps, and, throwing themselves upon the Czarina's 30 mercy, return to their old allegiance. De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars
The last czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his czarina, Alexandra, led a contented family life with four daughters and a son.
Barry McCaffrey is now the Clinton administration's drug czar.
Most of us thought that during the past few years Janet Reno's antitrust czar and his prosecution team were turned on by lawyerlike stuff like consent decrees, special masters and making Bill Gates's lawyers look like crash dummies in court. Joel Klein, Entrepreneur
The other country that took greatest advantage of China was czarist Russia and later the Soviet Union.
And instead I had to go to balls and other stupid events Czar Nikolai makes up to mentally torture us.
Tatars" is the correct form]; and, as the barbarous Mongolians lost their hold on the districts of the middle Volga, the power of the Czars began its forward march, pressing back Asiatics on the East and Poles on the West. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)
When the Czar needed money he usually borrowed it from Rothschild or some banker.
Would the persons who free-selected land know whether they were living under the blessings of the honourable gentleman's government or under the Czar of Russia.
And a dead ringer for Russian Czar Nicholas II, a cousin of his grandfather. Prince Michael pays a visit to British School, gives royal thumbs-up
The idea of absolute state sovereignty is relatively new, and it derives from agreements among kings, emperors, kaisers, and czars for their mutual benefit.
Before renouncing the habit, the former drug czar noted that losing large sums of money on slots and video poker hadn't ‘put my family at risk.’
He's the $600 million dollar pointman, the "car czar" for the Obama Adminstraion's assault on American auto workers, which is the greenlight for the attack on the jobs and living standards of every working class American in order that the US might "recover" on their backs through austerity for the poor and grotesquely increased profits for the already wealthy. The Car Czar's plan to gut America's autoworkers
Barry M. McCaffrey, a retired Army general and former drug czar, took direct aim at Rumsfeld.
The little boy, Alexei, the czarevitch, was the youngest. The Diamond Secret
JOHN WALTERS, BUSH ADMINISTRATION DRUG CZAR: Well, with the title czar, you are asking for it. CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2009
Her description of the film actually comes out of Weinberg, complete with the mistake of identifying the lead as an "eighteenth-century czarina" and the same false claims for the anachronisms of bobbed hair and a "motorcar" (Weinberg's word as well as Koenig's, p. 76 in Weinberg). That Uncertain Feeling
Still, his leniency is a far cry from the bravado he displayed in the months leading up to his final act as pay czar. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
For instance, Frank Zarb, who had been Jimmy Carter's "energy czar," predicted that decontrolling the price of crude oil would lead to gasoline prices of $10 a gallon. Blame Congress for High Oil Prices
Their violins swooped through czardas after czardas, just as drink poured down throat after throat. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
The Russian Czar, Peter the Great, devised the system in which young men were drafted to serve in the military for prolonged terms.
Zina Saunders Although this is his first Met appearance as Boris, it is the third time Mr. Pape is portraying the conscience-stricken czar of 16th-century Russia, having essayed the role at the Berlin State Opera in 2005 and at the rebuilt Semper Oper in 2008. The King of the Lyric Basses
First the czar appointed the governors of the regions, then in Soviet times the general secretary of the Communist Party named the regional party secretaries.
Afghanistan became a central prize in the struggles between the British Empire and Czarist Russia in the 19th century.
He ain't _shikker_ yet, so I told him he should go over and fiddle a couple _czardas_ till you come, and to tell the boss you got a _Magenweh_ and would be a little late. Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter
There is nothing sexier on film than the Czaritza scene (the last big musical love scene) in "Maytime", where you can barely breathe because the sexual tension is so overwhelming. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
I don't even understand this "war czar" thing.
Her parents, tailor Isor and Rose (Simonov) Becker, had come with their son Maurice to New York in 1892 from Nizhni Novgorod, Russia, where they had fled from pogroms and czarist military oppression. Helen Tamiris.
Nobody over there uses the term czar, so I can't figure out why we would either. Billingsgazette.com
The rule of the Czar was sanctified by the Russian Orthodox Church.
But whom should he entreat, or compel, or induce by rewards, to instruct the czarevitch to become a czar? The Talking Beasts
Enter Templar, a master thief recruited by the aspiring czar to obtain the formula by hook or crook.
The czarevitch Dmitri had not been murdered, after all! Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
Nocturnal animals like panthers, owls, porcupines, snakes, lizards, night czars, deer, etc., inhabit the region.
They bend their heads gracefully as they kneel each morning to pray for the welfare of the Czar and his family.
In a breakthrough of sorts for female announcers, Lindsay Czarniak will this season host TNT's prerace and postrace shows. Sports television scene changing with new faces, shows and roles
Peter the Great was the Russian czar who transformed Russia from an isolated agricultural society into an Empire on a par with European powers.
Enter Templar, a master thief recruited by the aspiring czar to obtain the formula by hook or crook.
After his stint as drug czar, Bennett moved on to become a for-profit defender of morals.
Hungary has numerous dance houses with live music - czardas being the main leg-shaking exercise - though some can be rather earnest and purist.
Pitt therefore based his hopes on the statesmanlike policy of the Czar, who in that month despatched to London one of his confidants, a clever but viewy young man, of frank and engaging manners, Count Novossiltzoff. William Pitt and the Great War
Later today, the White House car czar Edward Montgomery testifies on Capitol Hill.
President Bush has nominated John Walters, to be our nation's next drug czar.
Apparently only to substitute the autocracy of a new proletarian aristocracy for the autocracy of the old regime, and the czardom of Lenine and Trotzky for that of the Romanoffs. The Red Conspiracy
I guess they are trying to loophole their way until the next election, and we've already been hearing the "death squad" and "Obama Czar" wacko talk, trying to once again confuse the American public into trusting their wacko leaders. Health care ads dominate August, new report says
The czarevich was the truest symbol there was of Russia's future.
He then accused Putin of wanting to restore Russia to the days of czardom, when a monarchy exerted broad control over parts of Asia and eastern Europe. GOPer Leach: Obama's The Genuine Foreign Policy "Realist" Here
As the czarina informed Diderot: "You work only on paper which accepts anything, is smooth and flexible and offers no obstacles either to your imagination or your pen, while I, poor empress, work on human skin, which is far more sensitive and touchy. The Rise Of an Empress
White SeaWhite Sea is the electro creation of L.A.-based songstress and cellist/pianist Morgan Kibby, former czarina of The Romanovs. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 197
I had appointed myself the Driving Czar of the world and I wrote about one of the cardinal rules of driving: using your directional signals.
At midnight we boarded a train to Saint Petersburg, once home of the czars and Russia's most European city.
Kerry declared that he will accept whole hog the 9/11 Commission's recent recommendations, including establishing a centralised intelligence czar.
Americans always say "dook" instead of "duke," that nobody present seemed to realize the proper way to address a nephew of the Czar was to call him Monseigneur, that the Olympic games in London had been conducted admirably, arid that he didn't believe in marriage, anyway. Cupid's Understudy
Perhaps for their first anniversary, they could invite grievance (about everything) Czar and despatcher of bodies under the bus Barack Obama to address the anniversary dinner. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Cristal prides itself as a champagne originally made in 1876 for Czar Alexander II. Vaios Papanagnou: Why Is Jay-Z Still Angry With Cristal?
The main feature is a new national intelligence czar, to whom, it is imagined, the many federal agencies engaged in intel and counterterrorism will report.
Wall Street deal-maker and former U.S. car czar Steven Rattner recently reached a tentative settlement with Securities and Exchange Commission staff over his role in a pay-to-play investigation of New York State's public pension fund, according to people familiar with the matter. From Tense Call to Legal Standoff
Under czarism , this kind of confidence is doomed to suffer universal destruction. When all the people are forced to kneel down, the only one who still stands has become a god.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, with its clumsy passages about a Jewish drive for world domination, was a concoction of the secret police in czarist Russia — a fact not conceded by the Russian government until 1993, a century after the toxins had leached into the anti-Semitic world. Knock It Off
Ekaterinburg is where the czar and his family were liquidated, where the American U‑2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down, and where Boris Yeltsin got his start. How to Get a Nuclear Bomb
The chauffeur, a Russian Czar from the period of Ivan the Terrible, was a fabulous guide who knew of all the kings and rajahs who had come to the area for several reasons, and brought the names of different towns and places to life.
The radical liberals along with the Progressives, Marxists, Socialists, and Communists among us would have Americans believe Obama and his Administration are just too stupid to have known anything about all of these crazy czar appointments. aposematic in VA *Another* apology coming, Van Jones? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
Alone in the world, the sole survivor of her massacred tribe, the Russians to her were the murderers of her people, the assassins of the free musicians with eagle profiles she used to follow as they played the czardas from village to village. The French Immortals Series — Complete
They were so anticzar, so antireligion, why let this one church remain while they destroyed so many others? American Assassin
As the czardas quickened until its pace reached the speed of a whirlwind, de Savignac suddenly staggered to his feet -- his breath coming in short gasps. A Village of Vagabonds
The Czar's officers take taxes, we must pay more for our kosher meat, and for the candles for Sabbath, we must pay to the funeral society, pay to the officers of the kahal, and for what do we not pay? An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story
In fact, when the Russians left the country in 1834, the czar and the sultan chose the hospodars themselves.
After this rioting had continued seven days, the streltsi sent their commandant Khovanski to the douma, to demand that there should be two czars, Ivan, with Peter as his assistant. The Story of Russia
I saw the czar and the czarevich disappear through the back door and still the Russian boys were no where to be found.
It is a classic Moses park - ball fields, basketball courts, a red-brick field house - designed by his design czar, Gilmore D. Clarke, the landscape architect of the famous Westchester parkways.
Although it's been reported that six top generals have been wise enough to say "nyet" to the call to czardom, the renewed search does include a few generals. Calling All Czars
On Capitol Hill today, three former CIA directors voiced their concerns about the possible creation of a national intelligence czar.
The czars introduced constitutional guarantees, only to ignore them whenever it suited their purpose.
His army razed forty-eight Cossack settlements and killed 7,000 people; but later, fearing Ottoman expansionism, Peter allowed a revival — on the condition that Cossacks accept an ataman, or chieftain, appointed by the czar to rule the oblast. Russia's Holy Warriors
Romanian and Hungarian gypsies who fiddled the czardas and halgatos at our family festivities and camped in the empty store adjacent to my father's butcher shop, an uninterrupted flow of loud conversation in many tongues, rarely English, and kitchen odors of many Habsburg cuisines filling our crowded expanded-family-filled home, gave me an orthodox and optimistic view of America as a land of change and possibility which I never lost. D. Carleton Gajdusek - Autobiography
The folk dances finding their accompaniment to this music - the Hungarian czardas, the Polish mazurka, the German waltz, the Russian trepak, and even English Morris dancing - have a recognizably formalized shape.
The amendment prohibited funds to be used to so-called czars on health care, climate change, global warming, green jobs, automobiles, Guantanamo Bay Closure, Pay and Fairness Doctrine.
A few moments later an elegant strain of a mystical Romany czardas wove its way through the room. Brush of Darkness
Petipa had mellowed by the time he created Don Quixote; in 1847 he was still trying to impress the Czar and the St. Petersburg balletomanes.
Controls on the police which were exercised by the DEA have disappeared," said Rene Justiniano, a former antidrug czar turned opposition leader. Smuggling Scandal Shakes Bolivia
A Baker speech on his own ascension to czardom was promised, postponed and finally scrubbed; there was no way for him to give it without reinforcing the impression that Bush had had to ring in his friend as copresident. A SILVER BULLET
The contemporary "avenger" slays, not the merely great, but the good and the inoffensive -- an American President who had struck the chains from millions of slaves; a Russian Czar who against the will and work of his own powerful nobles had freed their serfs; a French President from whom the French people had received nothing but good; a powerless Austrian The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
Akaka��s bill gives the czar a budget for p.r. but no oversight over anyone else��s budget�� [and the] bill doesn��t specify to whom the czar would report �� which leaves no one responsible when goals aren��t met. Ross Chanin: ��
When Alexander died in 1894, Witte found himself transformed from the championed counselor of a paternal czar-protector to the unwelcome mentor of an unprepared sovereign—Nicholas II—who bristled under the tutelage of his inherited advisers. A Statesman For the Czar
April 1st, 2009 at 12: 45 pm insurancedriving factorymutualsystem com acura says: insurancedriving factorymutualsystem com acura … equation craven? intestines abolition eightfold czar! Think Progress » Iraqi Leaders Call On U.S. To Set Timetable
Perhaps it was because he wished it to be known that he considered himself the equal of any Tartar ruler; perhaps because he desired to have a title superior to that of the nobles who descended from former grand dukes, and who inherited the rank without the power; at any rate Ivan IV was crowned as the first Czar. The Story of Russia
In other words, as the Dec. 31 deadline for completing their withdrawal approaches, U.S. troops are leaving behind the good, the bad and what "Lil Czar" Mohammed calls the "punky. The Seattle Times
Foreign heads of state ceremonially visited it, including Czar Alexander of Russia, who was shown round by Soane on the occasion of the visit to London of the Allied Sovereigns in 1814.
In practice you'll find that people have these nontransitive beliefs all the time, and it's going to prevent this from working well. czarandy FlickChart Makes Movie Ranking Fun | Lifehacker Australia
Rich, that is to say independent; unmarried, that is to say unattached; free to come and go, he stood high up in that great army of the czar's, which I call the uncredited diplomatic corps, because the phrase "secret service" always puts into my mind a picture of the wild-eyed, bearded anarchist, whom I most heartily detest. Man on the Box
The series also highlights forgotten works by women filmmakers, such as Svilova and Esfir Shub, including Shub's "The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty" "Padeniye Dinasti Romanovikh," 1927, a grim chronicle of the collapse of czarist Russia that juxtaposes salvaged newsreel and home-movie footage of the Imperial elite with scenes of the hardworking poor. Visualize a Soviet Utopia
Since Iraq War czardom has been Hadley's realm up till now, how come all of a sudden he's too busy? Calling All Czars
The word czar comes from the Russian tsar which in turn was derived from the Latin Caesar. South Dakota Politics
At this time, there was a serious diplomatic difficulty pending between the Czar (Nicholas I), and the Sultan (Abdul-Medjid), and in less than a month after my return to Constantinople, there was an open rupture between the cabinet at St. Petersburg, and the Sublime Porte, and preparations for active hostilities between the two powers were immediately commenced. The Autobiography of Nicholas Said; a Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa
We barreled along, past wooden shacks slanting in on themselves, ruins of fishing villages that dated from the days of the czars.
The grateful czar told the soldier that he would reward him by granting any request he made.
When he rejoined the RAF in a few weeks, the facial hair came off—long before he had the chance to shape it into the full beard for which kings Edward VII and George V not to mention their cousin Czar Nicholas II were famous. William and Kate
The poem in the voice of Czar Nicholas, is written in the simple language and direct address of a son's letter to his mother, formed in unrhymed two-line stanzas.
Just as the gemstone alexandrite was named after the Czar Alexander, uvarovite is named after the Russian Count Uvarov of the mid 1800's.
After the show closed at the Corcoran, the Czarist treasures were held hostage in a tractor-trailer truck.
Shouldn't we all be nervous whenever we hear, even in jest, the word ‘czar’ being bandied about?
(Our = my co-host Dan Snierson and our producer/editor extraordinaire, the czar of the subtitle zinger, Jason Averett.) EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
We still have a mid-1890s picture of half-starved Abraham, an army drummer boy, standing in a Czarist uniform.
the Czars ruled Russia autocratically
Seven among them were awarded St. George's crosses, the highest and most coveted military order in czarist Russia.
Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis Trotsky ca. 1895 in photographs that accompanied an arrest warrant issued by the czarist police. A Jewish Revolutionary
In the city of long white nights, the czarist splendors of the Hermitage, the Catherine Palace, and the Mariinsky Theatre meet a vital new Russia of capitalist excess (gold-filtered vodka, all-you-can-eat sevruga) and unsolved mysteries. by Sleepless in St. Petersburg
I want to start with what Vice President Biden had to say yesterday during the nomination of the new drug czar.
I mean, I-- everyone always, it seems to me, throws out the term czar when they don't know what else to do. CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2008
The same day, incoming budget director Peter Orszag turned 40 and Obama's climate-change "czarina," Carol Browner, turned 53. The PDQ Presidency
So when Zhu appeared on Japanese TV recently, with a hangdog look, speaking of his difficulties, questions surfaced as to whether the reform czar was in trouble again.
The Bush admin appoints Czars purely for PR purposes. Matthew Yglesias » A Galaxy of Czars
At the beginning of the twentieth century the Czars ruled over a population of 164 million, consisting overwhelmingly of peasants who had been emancipated from actual serfdom only a generation earlier.
Earning a bonus every six months is an awful short-term vindication of worth," says Kenneth Feinberg, the U.S. pay czar. Semiannual Bonuses Gain Traction
The Czar moved quickly to quell any other uprising, officially annexing the tribal heartlands and forcing thousands of murids, as well as entire clans, to flee to the Ottoman Empire.
Jak dziecko, godzinami mogę gapić się przez okienko, nawet jeśli to czarna noc i widać tylko gwiazdy. Global Voices in English » Air Bus AF 447: Sorrow, lack of information and sensationalism
Busheviks" is a term tossed off lightly by "Murrikkkans" who don't realize their own current "Czarists" aint fit to carry the Bolshevik jockstrap. On Bushevicks, Bolsheviks and Scum: For The Record
However, in Czarist Russia, most of the pogroms were government organized.
The term czar is sometimes applied generally to a powerful leader or to a government administrator with wide-ranging powers. Czar
PROLOGUE THE HISTORY OF THE SECRET POLICE OF RUSSIA FROM the days of the czars to the present is quite convoluted, which is, perhaps, to be expected. Rostnikov's Vacation
Enter Templar, a master thief recruited by the aspiring czar to obtain the formula by hook or crook.
Descending, we went through the village of Otsu, which has quite a reputation, since it was the scene of what might have been a very serious accident to the present Emperor of Russia, then czarevitch. Travels in the Far East
We've heard about a lot of different czars climate czar, drug czar, now a border czar.
Parisiennes, with their attendant cavaliers, while the orchestra played the passionate notes of the Hungarian czardas, resembled some vision of a painter, some embarkation for the dreamed-of Cythera, realized by the fancy of an artist, a poet, or a great lord, here in nineteenth century The French Immortals Series — Complete
Vilter was grown up in this period and became an important deviser and practitioner of economic reform in the end of the reign of czar.
They bend their heads gracefully as they kneel each morning to pray for the welfare of the Czar and his family.
The Russians have a saying: "Tyajela ti shapka manomakha" — "The crown of the czar is very heavy. The Accidental Autocrat
Following a year full of setbacks, the ALA fighters started out strong this year with a string of successes, namely, the successful US debut of Melligen, the triumphant comeback fights of AJ Banal and Czar Amonsot and the title defense of World Boxing Organization mini-flyweight champion Donnie "Ahas" Nietes a week ago. Sun.Star Network Online - Your Source of Philippine Community News
To think, if you had only told your friends of the errand, and of the plans you had made for reaching the presence of the czar, that it would have succeeded and you would have killed him -- _killed him_. Princess Zara
The fact that it works without top-down coordination, that the right number of pencils get manufactured each year without a pencil czar, is a testament to the power of a few simple tools, particularly price, in signaling to individuals where they might best employ their own time and capital. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Corporate State: A Love Story
It was from the Monastery of St. Ipaty in Kostroma, forty miles east of Yaroslavl, that the first Romanov czar emerged from hiding, in 1613, to end the Time of Troubles — a fifteen-year interregnum of civil war, invasion, and famine following a disputed succession to the throne — and inaugurate the dynasty that would rule until the Bolshevik Revolution. Escape to Old Russia
Gordimer's father, on the other hand, to avoid being conspicuous, turned a blind eye to any reminder of the oppression he had himself been subjected to in czarist Nadine Gordimer and the South African Experience
With the recent debt downgrade, the government cannot subsidize federal jobs; therefore, I am appointing John Bryon, my Secretary of Commerce nominee and a former CEO, as Jobs Czar to work closely with American employers, large and small alike, to stimulate domestic investment and create 10 million jobs over the next decade. Bill George: What the President Should Say on Jobs and the Economy
Indeed, the government now desires a new regulatory agency under a sort of "czar for access."
Alex's grandfather was the czar 's only son, Alexei Romanov. KISS AN ANGEL
At various times, Roosevelt had the Russian czar, the German kaiser, and the hypersensitive Japanese eating out of his hand, however reluctantly.
The Greeks were accompanied by the envoys of the great duke, or chagan, or czar, of the Russians. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
Having had command of tanks and jet fighters isn't impor tant in a drug czar; having command of common sense is.
But a week after Russia's drug czar, Viktor Ivanov, met in Washington with his U.S. counterpart, Gil Kerlikowske, the mission went ahead.
He also received the disturbing news that a monk was among the Cossacks of the Don urging them to take up arms for the czarevitch who would soon be among them. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality
And former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle also pulled out of the running for health and human services secretary, as well as health czar.
The rule of the Czar was sanctified by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Vladimir Lenin, who made the rise of Stalin possible, had called czarist Russia a “prison house of nations,” but the Soviet Union far outdid its predecessor in that regard. The Great Experiment
The corps danced with an invigorating snap in the mazurka and the czardas.
She posed as the Czar's daughter
The President fired his old energy czar, John Love, a holdover from the pre-embargo days, and replaced him with Deputy Treasury Secretary William Simon. The Prize
And Marsa also gazed after them, her ears caressed by the czardas of the musicians. The French Immortals Series — Complete
There is a lovely example from 1924, of the pearl-draped niece of Czar Nicholas II. From the Shadows of Giants
Urging the Hollywood censor to continue his work, Roosevelt wrote, “You are the kind of Czar that nobody could call ‘a Dictator’ because you are fair-minded and do not use a whip but still get things done for the general good.” A Renegade History of the United States
They asked for the re-establishment of the douma as the beginning of a constitutional government, but the czar was not prepared to grant this, and he was right because under existing circumstances the peasants would have to be disfranchized, -- and there is small choice between an autocracy and an oligarchy. The Story of Russia
Van Jones's "czardom" consisted of a brief from the President to cajole other executive branch officials about "green jobs. The Volokh Conspiracy
I'm pretty sure she wouldn't give up a Senate seat to be a czar or czarina. Obama Hires Top Hillary Policy Adviser
His father was a democrat in czarist Russia, and he was quite a reformer. At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919, there was a brief window of time prior to the family's flight.
I think what Jack just said about our schools failing, we need an education czar.
Seventeen other House Republicans have joined Kingston in sponsoring the anti-czar bill. Republican takes on Obama's 'czars'
He suggested that jobs moving to foreign shores was his primary reason for creating the new manufacturing czar.
He's just playing the game that GE / NBC is playing: they're betting their last dollar that Obama is going to 'communize' the media and put all their dying networks on the government payroll, with the Obama media czar issuing their marching orders every day. NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
She called the cybersecurity czar the "quarterback" harnessing the government's abilities to respond to cyber attacks. Federal Times
He was one of Dimitri's closest friends and the czarevich told him almost everything.
Well, here's a memo for the inbox of our book czar (or czarina) to-be. William Fisher: A 'Must Read' for the Book Czar
Then came a miracle—the death of the Russian czarina Elizabeth and the succession of her Prussophile nephew, Peter. How Wars end
The story ranges from comedic to semi-tragic in the telling of the story of Tevye, a dairyman living in a shtetl in czarist Russia. Joseph Stein, writer of Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Zorba," dies at 98
The other superpowers had been shocked when the czar of Russia extended an invitation to the king of Spain.
A Turkish chain-mail shirt with plates bearing gold-damascened invocations in Arabic protected Czar Alexei Mikhailovich during Russia's war with Poland (1654-1656). Glories of Gift-Giving Diplomacy
Whether it is car czars or bank barons, there's not lot of love for gazillionaire executives these days.
Check that post for the rules. machismo checkup ramify czar ideologue plumbate glimpse February 27th, 2004
(Soundbite of "Crazy ABC's") Mr. ROBERTSON: "A" is for aisle, B is bdellium, C is for czar, and if you see him would you mind telling him ... Barenaked Ladies: Same Quirk, Younger Crowd
Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske called the imbalanced budget "balanced. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
According to his promise, the sham czar married Marina, the daughter of the Polish boyard. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton
The trumped-up charges and trial gave rise to world-wide protests and were treated by Trotsky as a czarist effort to stir up anti-Semitism always a useful outlet for discontent. A Jewish Revolutionary
Brought into Barack Obama's inner circle as his "czarina" for energy and climate issues — a brand-new White House post — she is now mainly a back-room coordinator. The Lioness In Spring
In a breakthrough of sorts for female announcers, Lindsay Czarniak will this season host TNT's prerace and postrace shows. Sports television scene changing with new faces, shows and roles
The epic sweep of history is effectively captured in the many fluid crowd scenes, while the private tragedy of the guilt-ridden czar Boris, his family, and his enemies is brought sharply into focus.
The commission really does lean towards czardom, and I must say, I think several hundred years of stupidity and autocracy, followed by the victory of Bolshevism is not a good model for the management of American intelligence. CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2004
At that point, they'll talk themselves blue in the face about 'soc'ilsm,' 'czars,' Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
When drug traffic escalates, they appoint a national drug czar.
One recalls that it was Czar Alexander II who emancipated the Russian serfs. Russian President Googles Capitalism
The chauffeur, a Russian Czar from the period of Ivan the Terrible, was a fabulous guide who knew of all the kings and rajahs who had come to the area for several reasons, and brought the names of different towns and places to life.
He tweaked and refined each scene, revising whole sections, such as the mazurka and czardas, which had been altered for television.
Since the mid-1990s, the nascent democratic transformation in Russia has given way to what may best be described as a "czarist" political system, in which all important decisions are taken by one man and his powerful coterie. The New Republic - All Feed
He promised to appoint an AIDS czar to deal with the disease.
Bush's propaganda czarina Karen Hughes -- her official jawbreaking title is John Brown: The Second Coming of Karen Hughes
I believe red tape, bureaucracy, regulations, inspectorates, commissions, quangos, ‘czars’, ‘units’ and ‘targets’ came to help and protect us, but now we need protection from them.

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