tsar
IPA: zˈɑr
noun
- (historical) An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.
- (figuratively) A person with great power; an autocrat.
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Examples of "tsar" in Sentences
- The Tsar was forced to abdicate.
- The level of despotism of the tsar's authority were high.
- The Russian Tsar Bell is the largest extant bell in the world.
- As far as I am aware the Tsar was also Autocrat of all the Russias.
- The whole point of the Tsar's action was to expunge Poland from the map.
- From the palace, the Tsar and autocrat of all the Russias ruled over high.
- Inside the Tsar's palace, the skomorkhi and the courtiers amuse themselves.
- The Anthem of His Majesty the Tsar was performed only in the tsar's presence.
- The Russian tsar sent an envoy to meet with the French to hasten the surrender.
- Bismarck failed to do what was confidently expected of him by the Russian Tsar.
- "Ecclesiastical Regulations", the tsar is the supreme judge of the ecclesiastical college.
- It was no longer a question whether Russia was to have a tsar but whether the tsar should be a monk or not, and whether it should be
- Zenkevich: It's not a criticism, dear friend, only a caution; using the word tsar with the people as sheep, these are dangerous images, surely.
- But in his role as growth tsar does he object to the word tsar? he is already causing controversy by suggesting that we shouldn't demonise bankers.
- A Russian guide told the visitors of the events on that dark night of Jan 17, 1918, when the Bolshevik Guards called the tsar and his family to the cellar and shot them.
- The paper tells us that Britain's telecoms watchdog, Ofcom, could have its decisions overturned by Brussels under proposals to create the "tsar", set to be outlined by the EU commission on Tuesday.
- “Sir Alan Sugar has no business on TV now: The appointment of Sir Alan Sugar as enterprise 'tsar' is a stunt, but it is a Government-sanctioned one: and, as such, he should no longer be allowed to appear on his rather coarse television programme, says Simon Heffer”
- Later in the article Professor Rod Morgan, the youth justice "tsar", is quoted as saying: "If we are dragging into the system kids who can be dealt with outside then we are overloading it and that means it's likely we will not do as good a job as the public expects with higher-risk cases."
- Even with Liverpool's transformation into an un-vanguard and the equally unexpected decision by Lord Wei, unpaid big society "tsar", to volunteer less, through lack of money and time, an initiative that eludes, insults or enrages virtually everyone beyond the innermost parts of the government is to be pursued and where possible imposed by force of will.