Sentences with phrase «apparatchiks of»

«Ignorant, imperious, and remiss» describes the Communist apparatchiks of Russia in the time of Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko.

For a fleeting moment when the polls were stuck at 50 - 50, that looked like a real possibility, as horrifying as it may have seemed for the apparatchiks of the mainstream parties.

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.

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.

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

RC is a pure propaganda site, and your quoting them is no better than some low level apparatchik of the USSR quoting Pravda.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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»»

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.

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

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.

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.»

With gleeful enthusiasm, one of Nixon's apparatchiks dismissed me as associate director of the White House Fellows Program, with my position filled by a Republican loyalist.

But for the longest time, his views were considered too radical for most of the Soviet apparatchik, member of the Communist Party.

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.

They certainly appeared to misread it at the Prime Minister's Office, as some of Justin Trudeau's apparatchiks decided to talk to a reporter about their misgivings over how Poloz was running monetary policy.

Jan Verwoert: «What makes the Sculpture Projects exciting is that it seeks to prove the continued relevance of a genre that, by and large, we have come to associate with awkward art in pointless places commissioned by city council apparatchiks.

Another example of potential malfeasance by a mid-level government apparatchik, a certain Phil North, formerly a career employee at the EPA.

But, by and large, nothing much changes, and the fascade of consensus of experts continues to echo down through the media and the various government apparatchiks whose jobs it is to push their bureaucratic agendas.

WHOEVER IS FOR SAVING MORE STORM - WATER ON LAND IS FRIEND OF THE EARTH; NOT THE GREEN TOP - COATED APPARATCHIKS FOR TAX - FREE MILLIONS OF $ $ $.

Then I showed her articles on the special shops available to the communist party apparatchiks, and pictures of the dachas enjoyed by their elite.

What the Bush administration fought was the issuance by progressive apparatchiks in the bureaucracy of political statements dressed up as science.

Unfortunately, the establishment apparatchiks are still wasting their time and untold billions on a political agenda, based on a failed global warming theory and climate change denial of reality, while real problems go unresolved.

The people will be starved of energy to make the Mafia and the apparatchiks rich.

Very much of the same view is that famously nice, caring natural history TV presenter David Attenborough, concerned environmentalist the Hon Sir Jonathon Porritt, actress Susan Hampshire, Gaia theory inventor James Lovelock, ex UN apparatchik Sir Crispin Tickell (the man who — briefly — persuaded Margaret Thatcher of the imminent perils of Man Made Global Warming) and chimp expert Jane Goodall.

The professionalisation of politics has seen a sharp decline in membership of the mainstream parties and the rise of a «political class» of career politicians, staffers, spin doctors and apparatchiks.