Sentence examples for as a commissar from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Despite having sent more of the museum's eight million objects on global trips than any of his predecessors, he's cautious of being seen as a commissar of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's cultural wing.

Dispatched as a commissar to the army during its rocky start in the French Revolutionary Wars, Saint-Just imposed severe discipline, and he was credited by many for the army's subsequent revival at the front.

After a rapid ascent as one of the leading thinkers of the party, Lukács became more involved in day-to-day politics: after the revolution in 1919, he first served as a deputy commissar and then as commissar of public education in Béla Kun's government.

During what was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War (Eastern Front of World War II), Khrushchev was again a commissar, serving as an intermediary between Stalin and his generals.

Just think of Laurel as a political commissar and Hardy as a peasant!

During World War II Brezhnev served as a political commissar in the Red Army, advancing in rank until he became a major general (1943) and head of the political commissars on the Ukrainian front.

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.

Along with several examples of his hats for later collections is a wonderful photograph of Garbo wearing the funky funnel-shaped topper that she had publicly scorned in her "Ninotchka" role as a Communist commissar visiting Paris, but secretly acquired when her comrades weren't looking.

Later, when war broke out he served as a political commissar in the Hungarian Red Army (in this position, he also ordered the execution of several soldiers, see Kadarkay 1991: 223).