Sentence examples for exchequer from from inspiring English sources
Lord Callaghan of Cardiff, who became a Labour MP in 1945, held lead roles in all four offices of state; as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967, Home Secretary from 1967 until 1970, and Foreign Secretary, from 1974 to 1976, as prime minister following when Harold Wilson's unexpected resignation.
He added: "We have taken firm action to protect the exchequer from unacceptable tax loss.
This will raise £3bn a year for the exchequer from large and medium-sized businesses.
The spokesman added: "We have taken firm action to protect the exchequer from unacceptable tax loss.
A Labour member of the British Parliament, he was Britain's prime minister from 2007 to 2010 and chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007.
Voters also heard enormous estimates of the loss to the exchequer from it (as much as $40 billion, said one auditor's report).
Anti-smoking groups fear continuing with the status quo means cheap cigarettes will continue to be smuggled across borders – depriving national exchequers from legitimate revenue and allowing tobacco to fall into the hands of terrorists and organised criminal gangs.
Its success in the local polls has provoked a predictable flutter of renewed Euroscepticism in the Tory Party, including a call this week from Nigel Lawson, a highly respected former chancellor of the exchequer, for withdrawal from the EU.Another lesson is more discouraging for Mr Farage.
The EU reckons €100 billion ($150 billion) a year is more like it—some from exchequers, most from capital markets.On emissions cuts, both sides need to give ground.
Brown served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1992 to 1997 and was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer following Labour's election victory in 1997.
Lawson is not a professional cook; her appeal derives, in part, from a tony background (her father was Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer) and from her experience as a mother (she has two young children) and as the wife of the art collector Charles Saatchi (her first husband, John Diamond, died of throat cancer in 2001).
