Sentence examples for commissar for finance from inspiring English sources

On 26 November 1921 Lenin issued a note calling for the appointment of Grigory Sokolnikov to the newly established post of People's Commissar for Finance.

Residents illegally installed makeshift kitchen units into their homes and the recreation space originally planned for the building's rooftop was instead dominated by a penthouse apartment for the commissar of finance, Nikolai Milyutin.

If they do not hold, drown him in the river". Bryukhanov, a commissar of finances, was shot in 1938.

That goes for finance, too.

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

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.

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 reaches, like a flustered commissar, for the polemical violence of "white supremacism"; he reaches for the race card - that silver hand-grenade of the virtuous.