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
  • 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
  • Merkel will make any concession possible to hold on to the chancellery.
    — Patrick Donahue, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Merkel wished Scholz luck at a handover ceremony at the chancellery.
    — Geir Moulson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • That fear is commonplace in think-tanks and chancelleries across Europe.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Her party had objected to more power being put in the hands of Scholz’s chancellery.
    — Kate Brady, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • The two leaders decided in March that Baerbock would make its first run for the chancellery.
    — Geir Moulson, ajc, 13 Sep. 2021
  • It was mailed to him from Berlin four months after Soviet forces entered the city and ended the war. Exploring the ruins of Hitler’s chancellery, one of Lewis’s former colleagues, Pvt.
    — John Buntin, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Gerhard Klopfer, a senior official in Hitler’s chancellery, worked as a lawyer for decades after the war.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Babur writes in a direct, unadorned Chagatai prose that contrasts sharply with the ornate Persian chancellery style of courtiers.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Coalition committee talks are expected to continue at the chancellery on Tuesday evening.
    — Jefferson Chase, USA TODAY, 3 July 2018
  • The urgent task for both Washington and the chancelleries in Europe is to start the hard work of healing the current divisions.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • 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
  • Scholz, who will host Sunday evening’s talks at the chancellery in Berlin, has mostly avoided becoming embroiled in the coalition squabbling.
    — Arne Delfs, Bloomberg.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • The most prevalent in the foreign-policy establishment and the chancelleries of Europe is despair.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • 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
  • But although Angela Merkel is handing over the chancellery to a male successor, the incoming cabinet will have more women than ever before.
    — New York Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Merz called for an end to hostilities in southern Lebanon and said militant group Hezbollah must lay down its arms, the German chancellery said in a statement last night.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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