1) Who was known as Iron chancellor?

2) Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, was once offended beyond endurance by a physician-turned-politician, Rudolf Virchow, and challenged him to a duel.

3) Ms. Merkel, Germany's latest Iron Chancellor, has set her face against any of the measures that might stem the tide that is about to engulf the euro.

4) Mr Osborne has been in office for a year and a half. By a similar stage of Gordon Brown's time at the Treasury, he had earned the nickname the "iron chancellor".

5) By a similar stage of Gordon Brown's time at the Treasury, he had earned the nickname the "iron chancellor".

6) Fiscal policy-taxation and public spending-is being kept on a tight rein by an iron chancellor.

7) But it will take more than words for the Iron Chancellor to unite her quarrelling coalition partners and stem the drift of conservative voters.