Sentences with phrase «apparatchiks from»

There was never any chance that the midlevel apparatchiks from 196 countries would hammer out a grand climate change bargain, especially since past summit failures left them with no obvious starting point.

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.

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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?

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

He exposes Chinese society in layers from the bottom upward: from remote, illiterate peasants; to the rising classes of businessmen; to local despots; to the twenty grades of Party apparatchiks; to the dominant, comparatively small caste of party leaders who are often ignorant of the people they rule.

Give this responsibility to a group which is well - removed from the government global warming apparatchiks...

In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actions.

Miguel Diaz - Canel may prefer the Cuban guayavera shirt over the Cuban military fatigues, but if he becomes Cuba's president later this month, Cuban - Americans watching from Miami believe the hand - picked apparatchik will...