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For the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, creating a club-within-a-club is the only means of imposing discipline on wayward members.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Stark stood for a "culture of stability" in the euro zone to which her government strongly adhered.

She said she wanted to be a "chancellor for all Germans" , "so that Germany does better, particularly in a crisis" .

If the tightening does not happen it will not be due to any easing by the chancellor, but to an even worse than expected growth performance.

The Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor, Vince Cable, said the report made "a few small steps towards transparency" but nothing like enough.

And chancellor Angela Merkel, who was brought up in East Germany, said the night the wall came down was a fulfillment of a dream.

There's been a setback for the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in regional elections a month before voters choose a new federal parliament.

Skywalker grew to feel that the Chancellor was the only one not asking something of him, the only one not speaking through veiled agendas.

He thought the old system, whereby the Lord Chancellor tapped you on the shoulder and invited you to apply, had worked pretty well.

I found myself thinking that those words would worry me, if I were Alistair Darling, the last Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Sauer, 58, is known as a rather timid partner of the German chancellor. He did not even go to her inauguration in late 2005.

Lord Patten, now chancellor of Oxford University, said he would not lobby for the post but would be "very positive" if asked.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the resignation was unexpected, as Oana Lungescu now reports from Berlin.

She never managed to fully insinuate herself into such circles, as some believed her to be a spy for the Chancellor.

Harvey had no very high opinion of him, saying "he writes philosophy like a Lord Chancellor. "

"I thank the chancellor for her support but I have reached the limits of my strength, " he told reporters in Berlin.

The British Finance Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling will present his budget to parliament within the next hour.

But, to be fair, the German chancellor has been preaching the message of political union in a lower key way for more than a year.

The shadow chancellor means it when he says he would have preferred a pop career with one of the bands he joined as a youth.

years of faithful service; faithful employees; we do not doubt that England has a faithful patriot in the Lord Chancellor.

Alistair Darling, the chancellor, yesterday described the plan as the only viable alternative to full nationalisation of the bank.

George Osborne, the chancellor, said the current turmoil showed that Britain's approach was the right one.

He was one of a group of Jedi Masters gathered together by Mace Windu to arrest Supreme Chancellor Palpatine.

The German chancellor's sentiment demonstrates the political will not to let Europe's sovereign debt crisis undermine the single currency.

He found himself in the middle of a political power struggle between the Jedi Council and the Chancellor.

The number of international authorities the chancellor selectively quoted in support of his view does not make it valid.

I remember watching her introduce the former chancellor of the exchequer and his wife to a shy, junior, down-table sub-editor.

I cannot quite see how the German chancellor is going to extricate herself from these self-inflicted constraints.

He is said to be one of the few non-German policymakers to have had influence over Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who runs Europe's largest economy, has so far refused to give the green light to any aid package.

It was as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer that I was invited to visit the People's Republic as long ago as August 1978.

She was one of the first to be wary of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's policies during the Clone Wars.

First, as chancellor, he gave independence to the Bank of England and kept the UK out of the single European currency.

George Osborne, shadow chancellor, is refusing to rule out his own windfall tax and demanding that banks forgo their tax losses.

There was no sign of a shift from the German chancellor either on a more ambitious mission for the ECB in addressing the crisis.

In the Telegraph interview, the chancellor said the British economy was "on the mend" .

The chancellor is to be elected by an absolute majority of the Federal Assembly for a four-year term.

It was just the sort of photo-op German Chancellor Angela Merkel urgently needs.

He appeared to compare the German chancellor to a first class passenger on the Titanic.

The received wisdom was that the former chancellor was the sole Tory heavyweight capable of landing blows on the government.

The chancellor said he wanted the country to be well-positioned to benefit from the return to growth of the world economy.

In reply, the chancellor welcomed the plan, which he said could bring liquidity to the financial markets and help companies to borrow.

She said she wanted to be a "chancellor for all Germans, so Germany does better, particularly in a crisis" .

Already some in her coalition grumble that she has lost her knack of winning elections. But she will surely survive as chancellor.

German chancellor Angela Merkel and often-outspoken President Nicolas Sarkozy of France did not reveal a preference before the meeting.

This week's declaration from the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was an unpromising start.

Mrs Merkel's personal ratings have held up better; voters prefer her to any likely rival as chancellor.

They found the Chancellor bound to a chair in the spacious observation deck of the General's quarters.

The chancellor's main argument against fiscal stimulus was that it would raise interest rates and thus be self defeating.

She has no wish to be the chancellor who let the currency fall apart.

A few weeks ago the German chancellor was basking in plaudits for taking a hard line against a European bail-out of Greece.

"I shall let you in, " said the chancellor, "but only if you give me one-third of whatever the king gives you. "

In the same statement in which he unveiled the infrastructure plan, the British chancellor halved the tolls for crossing the Humber bridge.

It was a tradition that the Chancellor would be up waiting so that he could witness and accept the child as heir for the people of Gondor.

It does not matter to me what the head of the executive power is called: a prime minister, a chancellor, a president or a hetman.

Shadow chancellor George Osborne said the real test of the measure would be whether lending was resumed.

In any putative government of national unity, he would be the default choice to be chancellor of the exchequer.

Final details were expected to be worked out in a meeting Monday of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet.

This will be the defining moment of the new coalition, as the chancellor sets out his long-term plan to rein in the deficit.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeated her belief that Turkey should not be a full member of the European Union.

The U. S. president said he discussed the situation in the Middle East with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Opposition speakers accused the chancellor of not squaring up to the realities of a major trade recession.

And of course, Gordon Brown as Chancellor [of the Exchequer] was responsible for that not fully funding it.

Her advisers struggled for years before she became chancellor to get her to sharpen her pageboy haircut and frumpy clothes.

On Iraq, the Chancellor has refused to be drawn into setting out a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops.

"I didn't hire him as a research assistant, " said the chancellor, Angela Merkel, herself boasting a PhD (legitimately, it is believed).

Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, told German television ZDF that she "regretted" GM's inaction and said a decision was needed urgently.

YESTERDAY, we learned that British Chancellor George Osborne has a harder task ahead of him than he'd been envisioning.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suffered a humiliating result in a key regional election in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Last fall, he called Mr. Clifford and said he wanted a role in Chancellor.

The Chancellor made it clear that Greece had not asked Germany for any financial assistance.

So it was that a duplicitous Chancellor took advantage of this unswerving allegiance.

In the words of one ex-chancellor, the office brings the burden of "having to see things as they really are" .

Mr Johnson is more likely to do all this than anyone else Mr Miliband could have made shadow chancellor.

What Papanoida did not keep secret was his love of performance art, and his disdain of Chancellor Palpatine's policies.

Opposition speakers accused the Chancellor of not squaring up to the realities of a new recession.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country's attempts to build a multicultural society have, in her words, "utterly failed" .

Chancellor Merkel made the remarks in Washington Tuesday as she addressed a joint meeting of the U. S. Congress.

The president said he reviewed the prospects for peace with Chancellor Merkel.

George Osborne, the chancellor, had tied his hands for this Budget by committing to austerity measures.

Let me start by thanking you, Chancellor Perlman, for your kind invitation and warm introduction.

Out cold, he never saw the final moments of the duel, where Anakin killed an unarmed Dooku in cold blood at the Chancellor's goading.

The mercurial, hyperactive Mr Sarkozy considers the German chancellor to be impossibly hesitant and legalistic.

This higher path reflects a slower pace of economic recovery rather than any let-up in the chancellor's zeal for fiscal austerity.

THE receptionist at the office of Chancellor House Holdings in one of Johannesburg's poshest suburbs is smilingly polite but discreet.

The Chancellor threw away the results of five years of painstaking effort by the Labour Government in getting down inflation.

Yet Mrs Merkel ought to think about why she wants to be chancellor at all.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the same day, the stability of the euro area more important than the fate of Greece.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has met with a Chinese Catholic bishop in Shanghai on the final day of her visit to China.

Next week George Osborne, the chancellor, will set out a comprehensive plan to tackle the UK's deficit in an emergency Budget.

The President is traveling just over the border today to meet with the German Chancellor.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer refused to ask parliament to abolish the tax on alcohol.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it would be good if Colonel Gaddafi gave up power as quickly as possible.

But Chancellor Angela Merkel has been fighting for weeks to quell a rebellion by some of her backbenchers against the EFSF expansion.

Chancellor of the Exchequer refused to ask parliament to abolish the tax on alcohol.

On behalf of the Vice Chancellor, who unfortunately cannot be with us today, may I say a few words about university.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated that creating such a bond would be no solution to the turmoil.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said the high turnout showed Iraqis wanted to take their future into their own hands.

The American ambassador in Germany rebuked the chancellor, Gerhard Schr? der, for his comments calling plans for a war an "adventure" .

As Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has pointed out, the European sovereign debt crisis poses a threat to the very future of the EU.

But since the advent of the German elections, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's position has been different.

Yet despite his often strained ties with Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr Sarkozy seems to find it hard to resist taunting her.

I feel a satisfying sense of reality which at once turns the two Archbishops and the Lord High Chancellor to the shadows of shades.

The basic rules and scope of the chancellor's jurisdiction was more or less defined in the seventeenth century.

He just has to call "Madame Europa" , alias Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, in Berlin.

Has it been a "colossal failure" , as the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, attests?

Headed by the chancellor of the exchequer, it will include the Treasury, the Bank of England and the FSA.

The vice chancellor of UEA, Professor Edward Acton, said this was "not a demotion but a shift in emphasis of role" for Phil Jones.

Mr. Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to downplay the sniping from officials that dominated the run-up to the summit.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, as the main architect of the Lisbon treaty, wants swift approval of a law that does not hamstring the government.

Both President Sarkozy of France and Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, speak of a Europe that "protects" .

As it happens, if the chancellor thought her stand would curry favour with peaceniks at home she was mistaken.

A would-be chancellor would have the difficult task of trying to change one party's mind.

He is an adviser to Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, who has been a powerful force in shaping European policy.

Palpatine's term as Chancellor ended during the rise of the Separatists, but that crisis allowed him to extend his stay in office.

Flowers bid for the Rock two years ago, prior to its privatisation by former chancellor Alistair Darling.

The policy will be fleshed out in the chancellor's autumn statement next month; it is likely to have two prongs.

While Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany accepted full responsibility for the war, Mr Putin was much more careful with his phrasing.

The German chancellor and French president jointly demanded golden rules across the euro zone in August.

Instead the two prefer to talk about "tough choices" and "setting priorities" , as in a speech the chancellor gave this week in Wales.

German chancellor Angela Merkel, her vociferous critics to the contrary, is proceeding as quickly as she can, which means not very.

Speaking through a translator, Chancellor Merkel said she was moved by the president's decision to go to Buchenwald.

Calm on the bond markets did not mean Britain could relax, the chancellor told delegates.

Unless she chooses soon, Germany's chancellor will find that the choice has been made for her.

Equity is a roguish thing, for it varies with the length of the Chancellor's foot.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have hammered out a common position on the euro debt crisis.

Throughout the Clone Wars, Chancellor Palpatine was gaining increased executive powers in the name of security.

Goebbels was to be the Chancellor and Bormann the " Party Minister" -- a new post.

In the current climate, anyone who wishes to pay a public servant more than the Prime Minister will have to put it before the Chancellor.

The ruling, endorsed by the Chancellor, George Osborne, is likely to have profound consequences for banks both in the UK and overseas.

His model was "Franco-German understanding" built on his friendship with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, waded into Germany's debate on immigration, saying that multiculturalism had "utterly failed" .

The position was discussed last night by President Sarkozy of France and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, at a meeting in Paris.

Also, the German chancellor Angela Merkel allegedly changed her negative opinion on a loan for Greece for the same reason.

Although a weaker pound might help British exports, it would be another weapon in the arsenal of the chancellor's critics.

At least once, the chancellor has countermanded a deal struck by her finance minister.

The chancellor said she might copy the president's tactic of recruiting opposition politicians to his cabinet.

To that end, Senators loyal to Palpatine motioned that the Chancellor be given emergency powers to deal with the Separatist threat.

The idea, put about by Mr. Brown's supporters, that there should be a "smooth and orderly transition" to the chancellor is a dangerous one.

The rationale was similar to that for chancellor Philip Snowden's emergency austerity budget of 1931, with its tax rises and spending cuts.

However, Alan Johnson, who was higher education minister in 2004, and is now shadow chancellor of the exchequer, has opposed a graduate tax.

That was a victory for Jacques Chirac, then French president, over German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who wanted the fines to be automatic.

Angela Merkel, the chancellor of the past three years, has been notable mainly for her invisibility.

Palpatine unleashed a torrent of Sith lightning at the Jedi Master, but Windu was able to deflect it back at the Chancellor.

The deal has been welcomed by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel whose government has offered financial support for the new owners.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said that "measured by our standards, it was neither a free, fair nor democratic election. "

Nothing can be settled in the eurozone without the approval of the German chancellor.

I think what Chancellor Angela Merkel is trying to do is to say, 'Where is this going? What sort of system are you going to try to create? '

Lord Patten, chancellor of Oxford University and a former politician, let fly with his own views on March 16th.

BOTH Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Europe as a whole avoided disaster today.

Photographers caught an awkward moment when he greeted German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a meeting of European leaders in Berlin last week.

Mr Strauss-Kahn had been scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday, but that meeting has now been cancelled, reports say.

The Vice-Chancellor, for instance, is no longer a Head of College, but is a full-time administrative appointment.

Yet the office of German chancellor provides a powerful pulpit from which to preach both to a home audience and to other countries.

When Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government came to power in 2005, ministers promised to do something about this.

Chancellor of Oxford, the former Governor Chris Patten said this on Oxford, it has "an opportunity for a century. "

This vacillating chancellor needs to recover some of the quiet resolution that once made her Europe's most powerful politician.

The Senate willingly relinquished more executive powers to Chancellor Palpatine, all in the name of increased security.

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the charismatic defence minister, is Germany's most popular politician and a potential chancellor.

Fiscal policy-taxation and public spending-is being kept on a tight rein by an iron chancellor.

Unfortunately, our chancellor does not consider whether these alternatives would have better effectiveness compared to love.

The opposition leader tried to DO a hatchet job on the Chancellor's budget plans by claiming that they were inflationary.

That apparent unfairness dismays some of the chancellor's allies, as well as the opposition.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, visited the island on Sunday, a sign of how seriously European governments are taking the disease.

The Chancellor was now Emperor Palpatine, and the once-promising Jedi warrior Anakin Skywalker was his new apprentice, Darth Vader.

The chancellor of the exchequer, by law, is allowed to drink alcohol to refresh himself during his speech.

This is not the first time the 54-year-old chancellor has made waves, intentionally or not, with her dress.

The Chancellor announced a new mechanism that will automatically raise the state pension age to make it consistent with life expectancy.

The Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder were among the first guests in her maiden trip.

George Osborne, the government's axe-wielder-in-chief (see article), appeared to be a lucky chancellor.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, John Aislabie, was a strong supporter of the scheme.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, wants the Berlin summit to issue a ringing declaration about the values and successes of the EU.

They suspected Palpatine would soon attempt to make the Council an exclusive instrument of the Chancellor's office.

That goes double for Mr Brown, at the time the chancellor of the exchequer and the second most powerful man in the country.

" Chancellor said: " No, No, the rest of the 20, 000 teachers would be enough to donate.

He was an eighth-century bishop, chancellor to two Eng1ish kings, and famous for charitable deeds and building churches.

In Germany the new chancellor, Angela Merkel, is under fire for suggesting changing the financing of it health system.

The German chancellor has a special genius for appearing self-deprecating, while subtly hinting that she is surrounded by ridiculous men.

Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, called for new rules for the euro zone, allowing errant members to be excluded if necessary.

The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, has also been asked to provide copies of his mortgage interest statements.

That strips German Chancellor Angela Merkel of her strongest ally and the Franco-German alliance crumbles.

The German chancellor's motives in making the link between the euro and the Union are doubtless honourable.

Angela Merkel, the chancellor, has twice dithered, arguing about conditions for a rescue even as the flames took hold.

Kaupthing was by far Iceland's largest private firm before the British PM and his chancellor drove it into the ground.

Mr Guttenberg, considered until recently a possible candidate for chancellor, has already been stripped of his PhD.

To reassure financial markets jittering over the prodigious size of government borrowing, the chancellor showed restraint.

In an interview on Britain's Sky News Saturday, British Chancellor George Osborne offered a stark assessment of the challenge.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided the answer was an antique beer stein .

Mr Loescher and Mr Hambrecht chose a tour of China by Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, as a good time to amplify their complaints.

After a few days in office, George Osborne, the Conservative chancellor of the exchequer, announced cuts to take effect in 2010-11.

Audi kicks off its 100th birthday celebrations with a ceremony to be attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Col Gaddafi's speech was "very, very appalling" and "amounted to him declaring war on his own people" .

The king laughed. His guards led the captain of the guard, the steward and the chancellor out to give them the beatings.

Of all of the Supreme Chancellor's aides, Moore is said to be the closest, and privy to the Chancellor's deepest secrets.

As a former chancellor of the exchequer, Mr Brown is well placed to try to sort out Britain's fiscal mess.

MPs passed a motion calling on George Osborne, the chancellor, to scrap plans to put up fuel duty in January in line with inflation.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, in particular, is sceptical about the idea of borrowing and spending as a way to recovery.

As recently as this week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that she would favour only a temporary increase to 700bn euros.

Indeed the Chancellor's judgment of fairness and justice varied as between successive holders of the office.

The discord has been most apparent the last two days when German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday the euro is in danger.

Dressed in a red suit, Merkel, Germany's first female chancellor, pointed out that the tie-less dress code didn't apply to her anyway.

It was George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, who bore the burden of substantively rejecting the case for fiscal loosening.

When Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, meets Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, the atmosphere can be chilly.

The banks' cause was boosted by Alistair Darling, UK chancellor, who rejected size limits and a forced split in activities.

In Tokyo, key figures will join with the President and PM Yukio Hatoyama including President Medvedev, Chancellor Merkel, and others.

German chancellor Angela Merkel is familiar with Cold War diplomacy, but on Wednesday she had her first encounter with Cool Biz diplomacy.

This "one of us" card may not be one the chancellor can play himself, but his surrogates certainly can.

In a telephone call to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the president called for "resolute action" .

Though he fought alongside the Jedi in numerous battles, his ultimate loyalty was to the Republic and its Supreme Chancellor.

Chancellor Merkel said, "We want France and Germany to move closer in terms of fiscal integration. "

George Osborne, the chancellor, said that "a great deal of detailed work" would be needed before the proposals became law.

So Mr Steinmeier's main hope for becoming chancellor would be to lead a "traffic light" coalition of the SPD, the FDP and the Greens.

Either way, George Osborne, the chancellor in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, this week totted up the bills.

The chancellor dismissed suggestions that he was at odds with the prime minister over economic policy as "nonsense" .

As well as Cameron, foreign secretary William Hague, home secretary Theresa May and chancellor George Osborne are all Oxford graduates.

Many in the party see the decision as a test for a chancellor who prefers messy compromises to clear leadership.

Except that the Lord Chancellor may NOT be a Roman Catholic, public offices are open without distinction to members of all churches or none.

Ms Merkel said she would make the issue a priority during the second half of her term as German chancellor.

There are three questions at the end of the survey regarding the Vice-Chancellor's contract renewal and the leadership at CUHK as a whole.

Chancellor Gordon Brown plays down the implications of the unexpected VAT bill for the London Olympics.

The Christian Democrats' leader, Angela Merkel, will remain as chancellor, but will form a new coalition with the liberal Free Democrats.

He had enraged Mr Cameron and George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, by grumbling publicly about budget cuts for the armed forces.

Next he swept into a meeting room where German Chancellor Angela Merkel waited.

He previously served as chancellor of the State University of New York and superintendent of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.

Yet the chancellor appears not to have made this sensible decision.

I would like to thank Sir Broers, Vice-Chancellor, for the invitation, which brings me to the famous Cambridge University.

Indeed as the Treasury itself confirmed last night, tax policy is a matter for the Chancellor.

The euro rise resumed after German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder suggested that he would tolerate a stronger euro.

Dr Khan was due to become vice chancellor of the proposed Swat Valley Islamic University and had criticised religious extremism.

Never far from Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's side was his hauntingly pallid aide, Sly Moore.

The office or department of a chancellor; a chancellery.

The question is whether the "chancellor majority" will suffice to enact the package without opposition votes.

The British Chancellor George Osborne says he's delighted at Christine Lagarde's appointment.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder based his reelection campaign on opposition to the war.

The move sparked warnings that the chancellor was punishing the Conservatives' middle class base and undermining stay at home mothers.

Is it a "Budget for Growth" as the Chancellor suggests?

President Barack Obama had rung German Chancellor Angela Merkel twice to stress the need for a headline-grabbing package.

The OBR takes fiscal and economic forecasts out of the hands of the chancellor of the exchequer.

His first emergency budget in July followed a telephone call from the German chancellor, Angela Merkel.

Leading US magazine Time has put German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the cover of its latest edition and acclaimed her as "Frau Europa" .

Repeated attempts by Angela Merkel, the polonophile German chancellor, to build a strong relationship with Poland were rebuffed.

Weber, 54, thought to be Chancellor Merkel's preferred choice, is an inflation-fighting monetary "hawk" .

Thus George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, drew the narrow parameters of his second budget on March 23rd.

"We want to tell people that their savings are safe, " Angela Merkel, chancellor, said at an unscheduled press conference yesterday.

Overseeing it all will be a Council for Financial Stability, chaired by the chancellor himself.

Just before dawn yesterday, Freya, the Chancellor's cat, took on Larry, the Prime Minister's pet, in a very public catfight.

Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer throughout the period, even claimed he had "abolished boom and bust" .

She learned to "sit out" the debate from Helmut Kohl, the last CDU chancellor, until a consensus emerges.

In her New Year's address to the nation, German Chancellor Angela Merkel acknowledged she expects turbulence in 2012.

George Osborne, the UK's chancellor of the exchequer, did on Tuesday what his predecessors have been doing for centuries.