Sentences with phrase «dem apparatchiks»

These bitter realities don't show up in the footnotes of those glowing, sanitized profit statements or in the rosy accounts spewed by apparatchik economists about the «benefits of global capital flows.»

He was the rare apparatchik whose name wasn't only known but reviled by members of the public, thanks to his involvement in crafting the National Energy Program, imposing price caps and taxes on oil.

♦ Michael Kinsley of The New Republic ponders reports that apparatchiks at the Moscow Higher Party School are now parroting Gorbachev's line, just as they parroted the Marxist - Leninist orthodoxies currently being abandoned.

The recent Compendium of the Catechism has been similarly sidelined by the catechetical apparatchiks.

The fair - minded reader who is concerned about the poor may well conclude that foreign aid, with all its pomps, pretensions, and ensconced apparatchiks, is a cruel shell game played at the expense of the poor and should be terminated.

However, comparing his performance in the 2012 election where he stood on the NPP ticket, it showed that Akufo Addo may not be as popular as his apparatchiks would make the country believ; he only added 188,630 additional votes.

Every budding politician and / or trade unionist should study the names of Tory ministers and apparatchiks who advised them.

A major speech on the issue yesterday was preceded by heavy briefing that the Labour leader would be taking a more aggressive position in 2017 and that party apparatchiks would «let Corbyn be Corbyn».

It's such a shame that «communication» in Ghana's political governance has been so reduced to shouting matches among party apparatchiks that the strategic use of communication for nation - building has not been appropriately prioritized and fully utilized.

If a fraction of the energy that Party apparatchiks put into controlling went into communicating, we might even be a half - way competent organisation.

In response, Farage told LBC Radio: «It just amazes me that those ghastly little apparatchiks that work in Downing Street put out statements like this.

That is why you can see me and all party apparatchik here today.

Andrew Mitchell once called the Labour Campaign for International Development (LCID) «Labour apparatchiks», but we are not opposing for opposition's sake.

He prickles a little when we suggest it is a weakness that the contest is between apparatchiks of the Blair - Brown era.

How will you shackle the control freakery» that obsesses the Labour Party apparatchiks and that can lead to shortlists for PPCs being dictated by head office rather than by the membership?

Don't get me wrong, I am onside with you on a lot of this, I think VAT is a terrible tax in the first place, that richer people should be taxed harder, there should be more and bigger wealth taxes and so on — so don't rule me out as a party apparatchik.

In party guidance there are references to gaining support from non party figures, however when you do this you risk the wrath of rule book waving apparatchiks who remember when such a person opposed them in the past?

As copious evidence has shown, the chief reason it didn't work was the attitude of NuLabour apparatchiks.

Contrary to the distorted facts being peddled around by apparatchiks of the ruling party, President Mahama initiated investigations into activities at BOST when he got hint of corruption at the place.

Pataki, a career politician, went on to tar Weprin repeatedly as a «career politician,» a phrase that's been bandied about quite a bit by the Turner campaign in its bid to contrast the a longtime cable TV executive with Weprin, an assemblyman and lifelong Queens Democratic Party apparatchik whose father was the Assembly speaker.

The Peoples Democratic Party apparatchik says, ``... we make provision for INEC, we make provision for security, we make provision for even agents of other political parties so that they will not raise any objection to whatever we are able to get.

I was wrong, and would like to make this public apology; no the Labour Whips and the Party apparatchiks found Crewe Labour's inner soul.

Vance has impaneled a grand jury to weigh whether the mayor and / or his top political apparatchiks conspired in 2014 to circumvent state campaign contribution s during de Blasio's failed bid to flip control of the GOP - run State Senate.

Our laws if allowed to operate according to its spirit and letter, would have imposed legal limits on government's authority by guarantee us certain rights and freedom when fighting against these evil practices in our institutions but unfortunately for us, certain provisions and attitude of party apparatchiks make our leaders automatic dictators who act without limitations.

But the disdain and condescension of the Tory apparatchiks makes clear that the rag and bone man's house simply offers a good photo opportunity.

Cuomo ordered state employees not use an Albany hotel during a four - month labor dispute, but that didn't stop his own political apparatchiks from booking a room there.

Over at Labour Uncut, an unnamed MP alleges that parliamentary party apparatchiks gave only 18 minutes notice of the vacancy, which is described as «approaching Ceauşescu levels of trust and inclusivity ``.

Guido was watching the press pack and some of Cameron's apparatchiks.

Saratoga County apparatchiks felt snubbed when McDonald refused to sponsor a bill that would increase a sales tax to shore up the operating finances of the county bureaucracy and Rensselaer County insiders were puzzled that McDonald kept a Democratic city councilman on his staff payroll.

Once again, the second chamber is being stuffed with party apparatchiks.

DeFrancisco is one of five potential candidates currently traveling the state, talking with Republican donors and apparatchiks about launching a formal campaign.

At issue in Vance's investigation is whether the mayor or his apparatchiks sought to circumvent state campaign contribution caps by directing their political allies to write checks to upstate Democratic county committees, which do face the same donation ceilings.

On Friday, Paladino drew cheers from a room full of the party apparatchiks that had once spurned him.

Continue reading «Favourite for next Director - General of the BBC is a dyed - in - the - wool Labour apparatchik»»

The Article, «MAHAMA IMPREGNATES OTUMFUO»S DAUGHTER», circulating widely on social media by apparatchiks of the Opposition New Patriotic Party and circulated on online portals, which seeks to portray tension between Manhyia Palace and the Presidency is another falsehood brewed by enemies of our wise king, aimed at destroying the relationship between the King and His Excellency the President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama and also bringing his distinguished name and throne into disrepute.

No matter how these few patriotic guys are drowned in the ocean of party foot soldiers and party apparatchiks things will get better some day.

Lawyers seeking to trade their suits for robes make their case quietly to party apparatchiks and machers.

No doubt Labour's apparatchiks are right now polishing their backstabbing - daggers....

I am sure he was opposed about his choice by the hawks and the overly partisan apparatchiks.

Candidates (and committee apparatchiks assisting them) can begin circulating petitions in the first week of March.

the labour party under Ed Miliband is clearly a party controlled by anti union, anti ordinary people pro business and wealth political apparatchiks.

The political sixth form at Westminster, former research assistants and apparatchiks to a man, is widely despised by the voters.

In Lower Manhattan, Sheldon Silver's apparatchiks lost control of his old Assembly seat in September to Working Families Party - backed candidate Yuh - Line Niou.

A few apparatchiks in party headquarters (some may enjoy the control freaky power) are unhappy but outside the Westminster village, people simply do not care.

I don't see the Deputy Leader as some kind of party apparatchik I see it as an essential complement to the Leader.»

Nor are the procedural hurdles she's up against dissected or politicized or even explained; as one of the many apparatchiks she comes upon tells her, «I'm not an information bureau.»

Warner Bros. instead turned to the unapologetically mainstream Columbus, an unadventurous Hollywood apparatchik who ended up re-creating all the detailed surface and none of the underlying magic of the Potter books.

Armando Iannucci plays funny business with accents in his mordantly funny new film The Death of Stalin, as Russian Communist party apparatchiks are exhumed by a slew of British and American character actors who all retain their natural accents.

In charge of this creature is a buttoned - up apparatchik and all - round sexist, racist creep called Strickland (a somewhat familiar role for Michael Shannon), and a sensitive scientist, Dr Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg).

Williams» role in the tapestry is that of labor organizer James Conway O'Donnell, a feisty incorruptible force in the Prohibition era who morphs into a sinister apparatchik for enigmatic forces in the movie's 1969 «present.»