Sentence examples for a commissar from inspiring English sources

How could a once thoughtful man spend the past 40 years transforming himself into a commissar?

(Mr. Lehane was the one who derided Katherine Harris, the Florida secretary of state, as "a commissar" and "hack").

In 1920, Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky, a commissar of Soviet chess, wrote that chess, "in some ways even more than sport, develops in a man boldness, presence of mind, composure, a strong will, and, most important, a sense of strategy".

"After the mobs were driven out and things subsided into some kind of order, so to speak, I decided to become a laborer, despite the fact that I could have taken a government post or even become a commissar.

Years of life under Communism have eroded people's personalities; where the commissar in Grossman's first short story was equally convincing as a mother and as a commissar, the people in "Life and Fate" waver between false positions.

That is, they can be the basis of a non-market system that replicates itself, which does not need to be created afresh every morning on the computer screen of a commissar.

In 1935 and 1936, Brezhnev served his compulsory military service, and after taking courses at a tank school, he served as a political commissar in a tank factory.

Isaak Babel wrote a brilliant cycle of linked stories, collected as Konarmiya (1926; Red Cavalry), about a Jewish commissar in a Cossack regiment.

The Democrats have called Mrs Harris a "Soviet commissar" and "a crook".

A siloviki commissar bid a sardonic farewell to the liberal reformists: "Their historical mission has been completed".

During that period, he went on location more and more (250 days in the jungle for Kwai) - yet he clung to English types, and so he cast Guinness as Nicholson, as an Arab prince (Lawrence of Arabia), as a Soviet commissar (Doctor Zhivago) and as an Indian (A Passage to India) painfully close to the comic figures created by Peter Sellers.