Sentences with apparatchik
ap·pa·rat·chik
A a - Whether conservatively toeing their Marx or boldly advocating such heretical Western-style reforms as the primacy of profits, every important planner, apparatchik and economist in Russia is caught up in Communism's greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world.
- Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch. [ …] He delegated responsibility for purging their ranks to an inexperienced and incompetent assistant who, if that’s possible, was even more of a plodding apparatchik.
- A veteran of the right-wing faction's internal wars, he graduated from apparatchik to MP and, as a new minister from 2002.
- But the apparatchik and the idealist are in constant tension.
- Limited portrait of a literary intellectual and Griffin-Armstrong's construction of a Stalinist apparatchik -cum-out-and-out arsehole.
- To the authoritarian leader — was a plea to stop a Syrian regime apparatchik in Melbourne from intimidating the local Syrian community.