Get to know Tsipras better with 10+ real example sentences.
Tsipras in a sentence
Using Tsipras
- In the example corpus, tsipras often appears in combinations such as: alexis tsipras, tsipras said, mr tsipras.
Context around Tsipras
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tsipras
- In this selection, "tsipras" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, alexis, motion, minister, administration, waves and became stand out and add context to how "tsipras" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include around alexis tsipras his greek and counterpart alexis tsipras. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tsipras" sits close to words such as abacha, acetate and adl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tsipras
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Even Tsipras, whose public appearances have lost their spark, knows that the game is lost. (15 words)
Yanis Varoufakis, the minister of finance in the Tsipras administration, resigned after six months in office. (16 words)
PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen is today in Athens where he is meeting his Greek counterpart, Alexis Tsipras. (17 words)
At the same time, the conservative New Democracy party led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis comfortably won an outright majority and formed a new government, pushing the left-wing Syriza party of outgoing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras into the opposition. (38 words)
In what was dubbed “selfie diplomacy”, Zoran Zaev, the prime minister of the Balkan nation, took a photograph of himself with his arm around Alexis Tsipras, his Greek counterpart, outside the main government building in Skopje, the capital. (38 words)
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was all smiles as his counterpart Alexis Tsipras became the first Greek prime minister to pay an official visit to the ex-Yugoslav republic since it declared independence in 1991. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
After his poor showing in May elections, Mr Tsipras had struggled to rally his voter base, a task complicated by splinter parties formed by some of his former associates.
His main opponent, Alexis Tsipras, whose center-left party Syriza is trailing heavily in the polls, visited Kalamata Thursday criticizing the former government and EU migration policy.
When he filed the motion, Tsipras — who has accused Mitsotakis of running away from previous opportunities to speak on the wiretapping scandal — said it would force the prime minister to answer on his role in it.
With New Democracy’s dominance pretty much undisputed, Mr. Tsipras is likely to face new questions about his future, as there is no clear potential successor to the charismatic former communist firebrand.
Yanis Varoufakis, the minister of finance in the Tsipras administration, resigned after six months in office.
At the same time, the conservative New Democracy party led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis comfortably won an outright majority and formed a new government, pushing the left-wing Syriza party of outgoing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras into the opposition.
Even Tsipras, whose public appearances have lost their spark, knows that the game is lost.
Former Greek Prime Minister Tsipras, who signed the deal with Zaev, criticised Mitsotakis for his “passive” stance on the enlargement issue.
Greece is expected to meet its fiscal targets again this year and any outperformance will be distributed to the public, Tsipras said.
Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras waves his supporters during a rally by the governing Syriza party in Athens, Friday, May 24, 2019.
In December, 2017, a visit from Erdogan moved Tsipras to consider letting a Muslim minority in northern Greece choose their own mufti, or religious leader, instead of having him be appointed by the state.
In what was dubbed “selfie diplomacy”, Zoran Zaev, the prime minister of the Balkan nation, took a photograph of himself with his arm around Alexis Tsipras, his Greek counterpart, outside the main government building in Skopje, the capital.
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was all smiles as his counterpart Alexis Tsipras became the first Greek prime minister to pay an official visit to the ex-Yugoslav republic since it declared independence in 1991.
On Wednesday, Tsipras is scheduled to visit an Orthodox theological seminary on an island off Istanbul, becoming the first serving Greek prime minister to do so.
PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen is today in Athens where he is meeting his Greek counterpart, Alexis Tsipras.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras attended Epiphany Day celebrations on Sunday at the church of Panagia Kamariotissa on the island of Samothraki.
Representatives of civil service pensioners will meet with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at 1 p.m. on Saturday, according to the head of their union, who spoke at a rally in Athens Wednesday.
So the ball for the final decisions regarding the way the government’s future is now in the hands of Alexis Tsipras.
Three other prospective bidders withdrew as Tsipras’ Leftists have been trying to derail the deal at the same time he’s trying to push it and get more foreign companies into Greece.
Tsipras said the agreement strengthens Greece’s credibility within international public opinion and allows Greece to tackle other major issues with the heightened international backing.
Common combinations with tsipras
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- alexis tsipras 44×
- tsipras said 8×
- mr tsipras 5×
- tsipras was 5×
- tsipras is 4×
- tsipras has 4×
- tsipras and 4×
- tsipras whose 3×
- tsipras at 3×
- with tsipras 3×