apparatchik

How To Use apparatchik In A Sentence

• Perhaps it comes straight out of that party line dictionary that was written in a smoke-filled room in Sevastapol Street by the same faceless Provo apparatchik who a few years back advocated the practically endless use of the term 'securocrat'. Archive 2009-01-01
• So long as the state provides them with what they need and does not interfere unduly with their operations, they leave it to the apparatchiks.
• Mercifully, amid this sea of grey conformity, there are a few non-apparatchiks with the savvy and cussedness to highlight awkward issues without bothering to worry about being caned by that tyrant.
• It is entirely generated by three budget-hungry heads of universities and their apparatchiks.
• The more top-down management became dominant, the greater must be the tensions between the top-down apparatchiks and the academic staff who do the research and the teaching and the examining.
• It draws its core membership from an aspiring petty bourgeois layer of career politicians, apparatchiks and trade union functionaries who will swallow anything in order further their own privileged existence.
• But there is a third level of meaning here which, intended or not, lends this show an importance greater than the art itself and throws down the gauntlet to Scotland's cultural apparatchiks.
• Nor do I think he will slink off to become a high paid, tax exempt international apparatchik, that is not in his nature. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
• I must have a strange view of government, because I never realised that we paid taxes for the privilege of being lied to by the transistorised apparatchiks of the People's Party.
• The Praga became a favoured haunt for upwardly mobile apparatchiks, visiting VIPs and wedding parties.