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.

• Koestler, in this book, plays both yogi and commissar.

• Ratsimandrava wished to create units of basic development that would be somewhat like rural soviets, but lacking commissars to oversee their activities.

• We are getting, for want of a better term, a commissar-type of bureaucracy.

• He wants these commissars to boss, direct, and interfere with those great gas undertakings, municipal and private.

• We would have rule by party caucus—we are already beginning to get a taste of that—and, of course, their commissar leaders.

• Words such as "central fund" are the sort of words which fall readily from the lips of commissars.

• Now, they can run to the commissar to try to bring the unions into disrepute.

• Let us make no bones about the fact that we would be right back with the commissar.

• He has been, in turn, capitalist, civil servant, and commissar.