Sentences with word «commissar»

The first was General Tian Xiusi, a former political commissar of the People's Liberation Army Air Force and a member of the party's elite Central Committee.

He met Armando Guebuza, the national political commissar of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and the man who would become president of that African nation.

As it happens, the same hostility can actually be ascribed to all the plastic arts, as Alain Besançon demonstrates in his remarkable history of iconoclasm, a history he traces from Moses and the pre «Socratic philosophers down to the Soviet commissars of art.

Sounds to me like a slew of local Democratzki Party commissars trying to hitch a free ride to Albany, at tax payer expense.

«Atrocities have been committed in the name of God and by the godless, by mullahs and by commissars, to defend faiths and to destroy them.»

China has its cadres, who stand watch over every function to guarantee political orthodoxy, Nazi Germany had the everpresent party loyalists in all levels of the government, education, and the military sworn to the leader; Stalin had his political commissars who told generals what to do.

As president, I'll highlight local successes — and make clear that the federal government's role should never be that of «beauty commissar.»

Its bankers, who had flagrantly over-traded their capital and won prizes for running «the best banks in Europe» along the way, erroneously believed the repeated promises of assorted EU commissars that Greece would never — never!

If there is one indictment above all others that could be brought against the sexual revolution of which Miss Gebbie is such a fervent commissar, it is that it is destroying the home, which is the ultimate place for people «to go.»

For in a very real sense, the hatred for art that now assumes the guise of so «called avant «garde art is rooted in that same iconoclastic polemic that animates every syllable of Plato and Nietzsche, not to mention a host of other art critics (in the literal sense of that word) from Origen, St. Augustine, and Blaise Pascal to those Russian commissars of art who ruled on matters of taste by diktat and ukase.

Grass had gained attention during the Nicaraguan civil war by arguing everywhere he could that the Sandinista commissars were victims of a demonic American imperialism equal to Russian Communist oppression in Poland.

asked one anxious Labour MP at about 8 pm on the Friday of the mayoral count, as rumours swirled that the former Greater London Council commissar could be poised for a spectacular comeback.

Even before the summit, a German paper had leaked suggesting that a «budget commissar» should take control of Greek budget, tax and spending decisions since Greece was not adequately implementing agreed reforms.

Catching up with the latest government initiative trailed exclusively to Skwawkbox, doing your best to keep on the right side of press commissar Milne.

This same Mr Richards has been roundly attacked by a Commons committee for his misleading accounting methods (perhaps learned during his time working in Tony Blair's policy unit alongside Ed Miliband and Ed Balls), his failure to control Ofcom's exorbitant # 140million budget and the lavish salaries he paid the quango's senior commissars (including almost # 400,000 for himself).»

And the investment would help prop up Ukraine's nuclear establishment, a clique of military commissars left over from the Soviet era.

The other op - eds and opinion pieces were there, but mine had been erased, much like the head of the «vanishing commissar» in Soviet Union - era propaganda (his hat, at least, was still there, but not a comma of my op - ed remains).

In the early days her role as political commissar mainly consisted in cooking a doing odd errands, but she eventually became the General Manager of Alibaba in China.

He was standing in front of an enormous oil painting of Stalin's defense commissar Kliment Voroshilov, depicted skiing merrily through the woods.

K - Street commissar Marc Morano's creepy lip service to the oil patch party line has sent another communitarian over the authoritarian brink.

At a time when scientists ought to be acknowledging the failures of the last 15 years, Mann and the other enforcers are instead, like Soviet commissars after yet another floppo five - year plan, insisting ever more vehemently that there can be no ideological deviancy.

Considering the current rumble in Ottawa with the Competition Bureau commissar, you might also be forgiven if you thought Mr. Polzler's ad was his position on proprietary rights and access to Realtor.ca by the great unwashed.

The shot fired by the cruiser Aurora, in October 1917, signalled the start of the October Revolution and the storming of the Winter Palace initiating, in stark contrast to the imperial rule of the Romanovs, more than 70 years under Soviet commissars.

This sense of the church as teacher, offering a wisdom that never varies but is always relevant, survived both czars who tried to turn the church into a department of the state and commissars who tried to relegate it to the museums.

I wrote a day ago about the climate commissars» persistent urge to exile, jail and even execute anyone who disagrees with them.

«The federal government's role should never be that of «beauty commissar,»» he says.

It is rare for both the commander and political commissar of the same force at such a high level to be transferred at the same time.

For example, Brimelow considers teacher union leaders «commissars of [an] American Red Army.»

To the surprise of many, Wang was transferred to the former General Staff Headquarters as a deputy chief, while Xu, who was the political commissar of the PAP, became the Academy of Military Sciences» political commissar in December 2014.

The commissar may be an able caretaker, but when the stakes are high, the riskier choice often yields greater rewards.

Author Arthur Koestler once identified two kinds of executives: the commissar, adept at administration; and the yogi, the creative business person who can lead or respond to disruption.

As a consequence, Burnham did not see that commissars and liberal managers and technocrats were rivals competing for dominance in post-traditional societies.

Once there are a sufficient number of successful entrepreneurs, they will see that in important respects they are smarter and larger in mental horizon than are the party commissars.

If he is right about the book, and he certainly seems to be — and West's response to his review, with its revealing use of the everyone - else - is - compromised mythology and supporting abuse (her conservative critics are «commissars» and «ossified totalitarians,» for example), supports this conclusion — one has to ask why it has so appealed to some conservatives.

If Radosh, a distinguished historian who has specialized in the Western engagement with Communism, is right about the book, and as far as one can tell he is» West's response, referring to her conservative critics as «commissars» and «ossified totalitarians,» is suggestive, as is her later complaint that Radosh uses books «written by academics from Yale, Harvard, and Stanford»» one has to ask why it has so appealed to some conservatives.

Olga Morozova, who upset King to reach the 1974 Wimbledon final, was ordered home by the commissars of Soviet tennis to play in the Soviet national tournament.

The scary thing was that the flight attendant seemed completely serious about the entire matter, as though the Obama era were the beginning of our inevitable slide into a world of commissars and work camps....

He spent a few years at a clinic in Brandenburg - Go ̈rden, Germany, and then, on an early spring day in 1941, he was «transfered to another asylum at the instigation of the commissar for defense of the Reich» — code words meaning that Hans - Joachim, then 12, was gassed at a Nazi «euthanasia» center.

«Russian,» she replied, trilling the r like a commissar.

They included the Commissar Order, to kill any Soviet commissar, and Rathenau's order to kill the Jews, including children.

The «commissar» is none other than the president of the Anaheim Elementary Education Association, Kristen Fisher, who dispatched an email to dues - paying union members on Oct. 6.

We had appointments with various judges and the commissar's court in January.

I have an idea for an improvement to the Jimquisition: a commissar's hat to go with that chainsword.

Olitski was born Jevel Demikovsky in Snovsk, in Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (now Ukraine), a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Soviet government.

But I understand that these days, the old esprit de corps is being increasingly undermined by the political commissars.