Examples of commissar

• Like Lenin, he surrounded himself with commissars, having absolute authority. 

• The commissar shouted: "What, still alive!" and fired two more point-blank shots at the prostrate man. 

• The rivalry between commander and commissar was particularly intense because all orders or directives had to be co-signed by the two officers.

• Within a month, the people's commissar responsible for the area was considering cultural autonomy.

• The supervisory commissar could order the expert of the afflicted district to undertake the investigations of suspected grapevines.

• The divisional commanders were frequently in friction with the political commissars.

• First, the commissar's duties were so imprecisely or ambiguously stated that it permitted him to indulge in matters that were within neither his purview nor his competence.

• The commissar 'forbade under the penalty of death to give any help to the people on the train' 99 and escorted the 200 to the synagogue.