How To Use Apparatchik In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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.
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It is entirely generated by three budget-hungry heads of universities and their apparatchiks.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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The Praga became a favoured haunt for upwardly mobile apparatchiks, visiting VIPs and wedding parties.
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Curators, artists, dealers and art world apparatchiks seemed all, for once, to be speaking with the same voice.
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Sophiatown itself-erased by the brutal apparatchiks of apartheid in 1955-is as much the protagonist as the suit.
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The audience of hardbitten hacks and New Labour apparatchiks dissolved in laughter.
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A quick look on Wikipedia reveals that the bands name is the Swedish word for apparatchik, which is of Russian origin and is used to describe "people who cause bureaucratic bottlenecks in otherwise efficient organisations".
The Line Of Best Fit
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Democratic apparatchiks
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What gets my goat is the way that it is used by the PC driven, diversity obsessed, promotion hungry and morally bankrupt apparatchiks within local and central government and the public services – especially police ‘officers’ above inspector.
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Unlike in Tatarstan or Bashkortostan, where Soviet leaders had sought to coopt potential nationalists by creating a caste of indigenous apparatchiks, Chechens and Ingush received no affirmative action.
The Return
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Clearly, there is no place in all of this for court painters to undertake ‘influential interventions’ on behalf of bewildered litigants, or for sentences to be carried out by furtive apparatchiks in some distant quarry.
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Today we get apparatchiks who start their working life with the intention to become a politician and work their way through the rarified environment of trade union offices, electorate offices or political think tanks.
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Over the past 6 years, he got used to having his way in the party-whether by sulking at the mildest of criticism, or by cracking the whip on apparatchiks.
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But this time, the Republican Party apparatchiks have lost control of the narrative, and Tea Party leaders have wasted no words in asserting their willingness to tear the party apart if it does not follow their lead.
David Paul: First Amendment Be Damned, Christine O'Donnell Is Staying on Message
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So where does ABC News get off, on World News Tonight, with 11 million or so viewers watching, putting what amounts to a government apparatchik on TV, and then presenting his government-approved position as the "strongest argument for staying in Iraq," when in fact that government apparatchik is giving the party line lest his career be ended, and everybody knows that?
11/18/2005
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When an apparatchik dies, his family can request a plot in one of several Moscow cemeteries informally reserved for the elite.
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We can refuse to comply with oppressive forces, forswear allegiance to their mandates, forgo reliance on their wares, unplug our lifelines to their conveyances, reject their medicalizations and distractions, discontinue our support for their adventurist campaigns, fail to contribute to their bailouts and schemes, ignore their technocratic designs on mind control, cease making demands on their apparatchiks, and avert our gaze from their spectacles.
Randall Amster: Occupy Ourselves
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Former Communist Party apparatchiks wound up in control of most state assets while billions haemorrhaged out of the country into numbered Swiss bank accounts.
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It is a bit rich for the apparatchiks of contemporary tourism industries to claim a romantic attachment to objects whose value is derived solely from that which was placed upon them by British antiquarians of yester-year.
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Instead of filing her letter in the recycling bin, some jumped-up hypersensitive apparatchik at the council decided to be offended on behalf the whole community.
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In others Communist apparatchiks remade themselves as nationalist autocrats, and stifled democracy in its crib.
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If he's a skilled boardroom apparatchik, they say he's not much cop as a coach.
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Either the Police Authorities are "answerable" with elected representatives (even nominees by local authorities), or they are stuffed with apparatchiks.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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With the political journalists, the fun in reading them is trying to work out which politician, apparatchik or bureaucrat they've been speaking to.
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Against a background where change comes slow, the theory of a ‘black hole’ swallowing up hikes in funding has gained currency among frustrated Finance apparatchiks.
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Klein, a corporate lawyer and political apparatchik, is here to spruik the virtues of Gillard's wacky plan to publish a rating system for schools.
Aussies to Klein: Political Apparatchik, Go Home
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And where are the political thinkers, as opposed to the apparatchiks?
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Unlike in Tatarstan or Bashkortostan, where Soviet leaders had sought to coopt potential nationalists by creating a caste of indigenous apparatchiks, Chechens and Ingush received no affirmative action.
The Return
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The former is headed by someone called Graham Dalton, who, it seems, is a time-serving apparatchik from the DoT, which, as we all know, is headed by that limpet-like nincompoop, Geoff BuffHoon, one of new Labour's 'Jack of All Trades & Master of None'.
Another Fine Mess
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It would not normally be worth reporting except that it is a small example of how difficult it can be these days for the ordinary scientist to question the official beliefs of the apparatchiks of global warming.
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Global pundits will find endless flaws, and many a Washington apparatchik may be troubled by the election's outcome.
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So the term apparatchik in the Soviet world really means something very familiar.
Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs & His Failure
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And while he may or may not be a capitalist apparatchik and/or a cultural troglodyte, it seems clear that he is a babe in the woods as a nonprofit and public manager.
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Blogging politicians are always going to be seen as a little bit like those old Communist apparatchiks who had to sit in the front row at rock concerts and pretend to swing to the beat.
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Church apparatchiks are fond of saying they think in centuries, not days or years, but perhaps it's a habit they need to kick.
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Privatization often has involved the corrupt transfer of assets into the private hands of former communist apparatchiks.
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The paradox of the antipolitical mood is a bonanza for political apparatchiks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The new party chief for Moscow was Boris Yeltsin, a combative apparatchik in his previous post as head of the Sverdlovsk party organization, but soon showing himself as an implacable enemy of the deep-seated corruption he found in Moscow.
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When an apparatchik dies, his family can request a plot in one of several Moscow cemeteries informally reserved for the elite.
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A Greens apparatchik phones the station and bleats to the producer.
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‘Oh well, you know how busy she is, being a minister’, simpers her constituency apparatchik when you try to contact her.
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To take on a job which would normally be the preserve of an apparatchik is odd to say the least.
Norman Lamb Appointed Ming's Chief of Staff
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What a truly appalling state of affairs that, without any reasonable basis so to do, an Apparatchik of the State will thus be given a power that is malodorously redolent of a Tin Pot One Party Banana Republic.
They Cannot Send All Of Us To The Gulag
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In so doing, they hope to exonerate the thousands of former Khmer Rouge apparatchiks within the Cambodian government, military and business elite.
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The former is headed by someone called Graham Dalton, who, it seems, is a time-serving apparatchik from the DoT, which, as we all know, is headed by that limpet-like nincompoop, Geoff BuffHoon, one of new Labour's 'Jack of All Trades & Master of None'.
Archive 2009-02-01
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And the weather apparatchiks also refuse to acknowledge that even in the winter the sun provides some slight warmth.
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The message to our cultural apparatchiks was that the more popular the project the more official favour and the more money it would find.
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The new communist masters decided that Skoda would produce cars for the proles while the politburo and their apparatchiks would get a new luxury saloon built by Tatra.
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The collection of time-served, semi-literate party and union apparatchiks who stumbled in and out of our TV pictures on the night of 6 May often made you wonder if the party seriously thought it ever had a chance of winning.
Our Labour party needs to find its nerve again | Kevin McKenna
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This apparatchik added looking at the academics who were commanded to attend: ‘If there is anyone here against democracy, I shall smash his face’.
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The extremism of the antagonistic, Western, post-Stalinist critic is mirrored in the extremism of the sycophantic Stalinist party apparatchik.
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You write that in four of these five states the current rulers are former apparatchiks of the Communist Party.
