Sentences with phrase «political apparatchik»

Hi kalinin1158 - Go for Alice - she was a powerful intellectual and behind the scenes political apparatchik.

During a forceful speech in parliament this afternoon, the former Liberal Democrat leader said he had been told there was «one un-elected political apparatchik in Number 10» who had attended a grammar school and has «persuaded the prime minister that therefore it's a good idea».

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.