Example sentences of "as chancellor " in BNC.
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| 1 | More strikingly , Sir Geoffrey Howe , a stalwart of the heroic period of Thatcherism in the early 1980s , when she as Prime Minister and he as Chancellor of the Exchequer defied almost the entire economic establishment , has started to lay greater stress on the Government 's role in industry . |
| 2 | As chancellor he inherited an economy with the skids under it after the Barber years . |
| 3 | Financial policy , which deviated increasingly from monetarist orthodoxy , also pursued a more distinct course with Nigel Lawson as Chancellor . |
| 4 | The crisis deepened when Nigel Lawson resigned as Chancellor in October after a disagreement with Professor Alan Walters . |
| 5 | If all the subsequent television and newspaper interviews are to be believed , the boy Lawson told Mrs Thatcher that he jolly well was n't going to stay on as Chancellor unless she fired that rotter Walters as her ‘ adviser ’ . |
| 6 | He is moving back towards the bad practice of selective tax shelters , which Mr Lawson had undermined in his five years as chancellor . |
| 7 | But Mr Kohl , usually underestimated in his eight years as chancellor , has never looked more firmly in command or keener to carry on . |
| 8 | Current proposals for further action have yet to be implemented , including that made by John Major ( as chancellor of the exchequer ) at last September 's Commonwealth meeting of finance ministers . |
| 9 | Since 1979 the other Cabinet ministers ( Margaret Thatcher excepted ) who have exceeded five years in one department are Nicholas Edwards , the Secretary of State for Wales between 1979 and 1987 ; George Younger , as Scottish Secretary ; Nigel Lawson , as Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and Geoffrey Howe , as Foreign Secretary . |
| 10 | He had already gained experience of some of the economic problems of the post-war economy in his role as minister at the Board of Trade , from April 1921 to October 1922 , and then as Chancellor of the Exchequer from October 1922 until May 1923 . |
| 11 | ‘ If the Christian Democrats suffer a dramatic collapse , it would be the beginning of the end for him as chancellor . ’ |
| 12 | Giscard d'Estaing called the hard ecu a ‘ positive contribution ’ after a meeting with John Major as Chancellor . |
| 13 | From 1567 this house belonged to Sixt of Ottersdorf who , as Chancellor of the Old Town , played a part in the anti-Habsburg uprising of 1547 . |
| 14 | Most important of all was the fact that he was devoted to imperial service ; thus his role as chancellor and Barbarossa 's role as emperor were seldom to come into conflict . |
| 15 | In later years , the post developed into an early version of that we know as Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 16 | Wills III , despite his position in business and his status as Chancellor of the University , preferred to go to his office at night after his staff had gone home , and to give instructions in writing rather than by word of mouth . |
| 17 | As chancellor , he told the Independent that he would consider cutting public spending or raising indirect taxes in order to sustain a balanced budget . |
| 18 | Interview in the Financial Times as Chancellor of the Exchequer , October 1990 . |
| 19 | And finally we went to see Karl Dönitz , the admiral who throughout the war had epitomized the U-boat service and been its inspired leader , who in 1943 had relieved Admiral Raeder as Germany 's naval commander-in-chief , and finally for a very brief period before arrest and ten years ' imprisonment in Spandau had succeeded Hitler as Chancellor . |
| 20 | NIGEL Lawson , who as Chancellor presided over the property boom and bust , has finally sold his home after two years on the market . |
| 21 | His days are now numbered as Chancellor , but who the Hell cares about Norman Lamont ? |
| 22 | The main opposition , in fact , came from some of his ministerial colleagues , especially his eventual successor as Chancellor , Ludwig Erhard , who preferred a broader and looser arrangement . |
| 23 | Shuffling Kenneth Clarke , the home secretary , and fancied to replace Norman Lamont as chancellor , soothed Tory Euro-sceptics by saying he would be ‘ surprised ’ if sterling rejoined the European exchange-rate mechanism during the present Parliament . |
| 24 | Schemes of public works financed directly by central government owed much of their inspiration to Lloyd George 's yellow book , We Can Conquer Unemployment , and his own work as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . |
| 25 | He was not the first of his family to serve the English crown , because his kinsman , Michel de Fiennes , had acted as chancellor to the Lord Edward during his stay in Gascony in 1254–5 . |
| 26 | In the end he was given office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . |
| 27 | Asquith succeeded him as Prime Minister ; Lloyd George took his place , entering the Cabinet for the first time , as Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 28 | At the very moment when Hurd was preparing to unveil the fruits of a long period of gestation in the form of a White Paper on criminal justice , Lawson resigned as Chancellor . |
| 29 | After only three months at the Foreign Office , John Major , previously Chief Secretary , was brought back to the Treasury as Chancellor , leaving the Foreign Secretaryship unexpectedly vacant . |
| 30 | The most eminent was Thomas Rotherham , archbishop of York , who was replaced as chancellor on 10 May by John Russell , bishop of Lincoln . |