Sentence examples for commissar for from inspiring English sources

Lev M. Karakhan, the deputy commissar for foreign affairs, was chosen as plenipotentiary for the negotiations.

As commissar for nationalities, he sought to ensure that Moscow rule prevailed.

In 2000, Hans Eichel was a German finance minister known as the Savings Commissar for his admired stinginess.

Indeed, Moscow under the Georgian Joseph Stalin, the commissar for nationalities, regarded imperial Russia's territory as its natural patrimony.

General Goering, as commissar for the four-year plan, has given orders for the collection of human hair throughout the Reich.

He was appointed people's commissar for external and internal trade in 1926, and thereafter consistently held posts relating to that field.

Having become commissar for foreign affairs (July 21 , 1930, he was the principal Soviet delegate to the World Disarmament Conference held at Geneva in 1932.

On the brother/bottomless-well-of-bitterness issue: I know things are somewhat strained between you right now and you were particularly hurt by the briefing that you wanted to spend your gap year as an executioner-commissar for the Peruvian Maoists of the Shining Path.

It is easy for Americans to deride the ideological blinders that made the Vietnamese political commissars resist technological explanations for their problems and to blame the commissars for Vietnamese mistakes and blunders.

After the Bolsheviks seized power (October 1917), he became commissar extraordinary for the Ukraine area (1918), a member of his party's Central Committee (1921), and chairman of the Central Committee's Caucasian bureau (1921).

The commissar returned for the funeral and, loyal to his Bolshevik principles, refused to allow his wife's coffin to enter the local church.