How to Use chancellery in a Sentence

chancellery

noun
  • The prime minister will speak at the State Chancellery this afternoon.
  • The agreement came after about four hours of talks at the chancellery in Berlin.
    Geir Moulson, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Eve speech gives the new leader the chance to speak directly to the public from the chancellery in Berlin.
    New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • This had not gone unnoticed in the chancellery, the person added.
    Alberto Nardelli, Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But the winner of that contest faces a difficult path to the chancellery.
    New York Times, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The metal gate to the chancellery appeared slightly bent.
    Fox News, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The probe is now sure to dog Mr. Scholz, his party’s nominee for the chancellery, in the run-up to the September 2021 ballot.
    Ruth Bender, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The two leaders decided in March that Baerbock would make its first run for the chancellery.
    Geir Moulson, ajc, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Merkel will make any concession possible to hold on to the chancellery.
    Patrick Donahue, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • And it was further inflamed Tuesday … when Trump fired a white-hot shot straight at Berlin’s glass-and-concrete chancellery.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
  • Gerhard Klopfer, a senior official in Hitler’s chancellery, worked as a lawyer for decades after the war.
    New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • And now some in the party are even questioning whether Laschet should be the one to take over the chancellery in the unlikely event that Scholz fails to make a coalition, and the Christian Democrats can.
    Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Rescue crews on the scene confirmed the man driving the car was being treated in an ambulance that remained in front of the chancellery.
    Fox News, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Merkel wished Scholz luck at a handover ceremony at the chancellery.
    Geir Moulson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Police in Berlin shut down a large area around the chancellery where Merkel was to meet with Erdogan, including the airspace and boat traffic on the Spree river.
    Geir Moulson, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
  • That fear is commonplace in think-tanks and chancelleries across Europe.
    The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • And it was further enflamed Tuesday at 6:40 a.m. Washington time when Trump fired a white-hot shot straight at Berlin’s glass-and-concrete chancellery.
    Michael Birnbaum and Rick Noack, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
  • And it was further inflamed Tuesday at 6:40 a.m. Washington time when Trump fired a white-hot shot straight at Berlin's glass-and-concrete chancellery.
    Michael Birnbaum and Rick Noack, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
  • Tessin spent more than a decade at the top of Swedish politics, in the office of president of the chancellery — essentially, prime minister.
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
  • The Greens made significant gains in the election to finish third but fell far short of their original aim of taking the chancellery, while the Free Democrats improved slightly on a good result from 2017.
    Geir Moulson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Indeed, in the chancellery itself, no Russians worked above the fourth floor in the roughly 10-story building, former Russian employees said.
    Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 31 July 2017
  • Kurz said during a handover ceremony at the chancellery.
    Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The most prevalent in the foreign-policy establishment and the chancelleries of Europe is despair.
    The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • Yet Grotian had been urging expediency for weeks, writing four times to the chancellery and asking it to take charge of an expedited process.
    Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Maassen told Seehofer, his immediate boss, about his doubts before going public but didn't inform the chancellery.
    Geir Moulson, Fox News, 13 Sep. 2018
  • The party picked him as leader, and later their candidate for the chancellery, despite his lack of popularity with voters.
    Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2021
  • The Social Democrats will get seven Cabinet ministers, including the defense and health portfolios, as well as the chancellery.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 25 Nov. 2021
  • In her interview on Sunday, Ms. Merkel threatened to centralize power in the chancellery if state leaders ignored the need for more restrictions on movement.
    New York Times, 1 Apr. 2021
  • At party headquarters on Sunday night, he was being celebrated as a savior by party members who were adamant that the chancellery was theirs.
    New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Her death was announced on April 14 by the federal chancellery, The Associated Press reported.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023

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