Sentences with phrase «party apparatchiks»

The expenses scandal did colossal damage, as did the parachuting of party apparatchiks into safe seats with which they had little connection.

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.

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.

That interview reads like so many party apparatchik buzzwords strung together to the point of being meaningless.

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.

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?

Yet Norman was the recent intellectual leader of the successful Tory backbench resistance to an elected House of Lords, leaving the nation stuck with the current appointed House — one that leaves party leaders free to use patronage to reward donors, hangers on, campaigners and party apparatchiks for years of service.

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.

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.

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 ``.

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

The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress Chief John Odigie Oyegun faces his toughest political moment on Monday as the entire party apparatchik meet to decide on the propriety or otherwise of his continuation in office as the chairman.

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.

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

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».

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

From Eton to Oxford, through gap - year adventures in Russia to his early days as a party apparatchik and his stint as a PR man, the book scrutinises Cameron's journey to the premiership — and his record as the most powerful man in the land.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

She sounded like a party apparatchik who doesn't really get climate change.