How to Use chancellor in a Sentence

chancellor

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  • These, as the German chancellor said, are the new Nazis.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Who was chancellor of Germany the last time Germany won the World Cup?
    — Dina Bass, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
  • David Banks, the city’s schools chancellor, is planning to force the nation’s largest school system to take a new approach.
    — Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • But the chancellor has proved reluctant to take up a larger role.
    — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • Gene Block is the longtime chancellor of my alma mater.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • To honor Yan, the chancellor said, the campus will ring the bell tower at 1:02 p.m. on Wednesday and hold a moment of silence.
    — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • She also was appointed to the honorary post of chancellor at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
    — Mark Sherman The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
  • In 1933, Adolf Hitler would be named German chancellor.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The chancellor denied that the incident was a case of police being weaponized.
    — Jarell Skinner-Roy, The Conversation, 16 Dec. 2022
  • David Banks, the city’s schools chancellor, blames the current approach to teaching reading.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • On this date: In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
    — Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • His extension was approved by the presidents and chancellors of the 14 SEC schools.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 13 July 2023
  • The board of trustees is expected to select a new chancellor by February.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • If the Pac-12 presidents and chancellors decide not to invite the Aztecs, well, the conference might as well fold up shop and send each school on its merry way.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The associate vice chancellor has worked at the Fort Smith campus for the past nine years, according to the release from the governor's office.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 2 May 2023
  • Scholz himself is polling at one the lowest figures for a German chancellor ever.
    — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • When he was installed as chancellor a year ago, Mr. Hunt took a cautious approach to the nation’s money and abandoned nearly all of Ms. Truss’s plans.
    — Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The film stars Kate Winslet as the chancellor of an oligarchy that seems to be in its final moments of power—a development that doesn’t sit well with the chancellor.
    — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Why isn’t everyone working from the same script? Osborne, once chancellor of the Exchequer, is Notting Hill through and through.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The chancellor's son, imprisoned for his crimes, has always sought to unburden himself of the weight of his family name.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The result has been what the chancellor’s critics see as the overly tentative leadership of Mr. Scholz at this moment of crisis.
    — Erika Solomon, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The system, which was rolled out under former chancellor Michelle Rhee, was one of the first in the country to tie teacher job security and pay to class performance.
    — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • It has only been awarded to three people, all former chancellors.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 2 June 2023
  • Robert Habeck, the vice chancellor of Germany, is listed as a keynote speaker for November.
    — Mark Bergen, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The audience, by the way, included Angela Merkel, the former chancellor of Germany.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Aug. 2023
  • All 12 presidents and chancellors signed off on the retention and severance plan but did not take a formal vote, per court order.
    — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023
  • On his home turf, the German chancellor has been facing competition from the AfD party which has slowly gained ground as the second-largest party in the nation.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Wolfgang Schüssel, a former chancellor, was on the board of Lukoil, the largest private corporation in Russia.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 31 July 2023
  • As chancellor, Sunak had raised taxes to historically stratospheric levels and lectured the public on the need to take the medicine.
    — Dominic Green, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor of the Exchequer for the Conservative government, spoke the same day that Reeves did only to say there would be less room for tax cuts in his budget next month.
    — John Fund, National Review, 5 Feb. 2024

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