In late August, Han Bing, political commissar of an unnamed airbase, bragged to the paper about the novel approach: "Using macaques to disperse birds has low costs and risks with high efficiency, and this is a first in the world".
In 1941 Stalin appointed Ustinov people's commissar of armaments, a position that he kept under the titles of minister of armaments (1946 53) and minister of defense industries (1953 57).
Following the conclusion of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Tresignedesigned as foreign commissar, turning the office over to Georgy Chicherin, and was immediately made commissar of war, theretofore a committee responsibility.
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".
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.
Was that a lady I saw you with last night, digging up parsnips at Farming Field 3908, or was it just a commissar of the Forced Labor Brigade?" Warning: Citizens caught imitating the voice of Our Ever More Dear Leader Kim Jong-un will immediately undergo experimental tongue surgery.
At one point in the memoir, in the autumn of 1918, at the dangerous Ukrainian border, a local "commissar of arts" orders Teffi's group to entertain the proletariat at his Club of Enlightenment and Culture.
Instead the eastern European governments were in effect taken over one by one, starting with Romania early in 1945, when the deputy commissar of foreign affairs, Andrey Vyshinsky, presented an ultimatum to King Michael to remove all democrats from office.
Soviet diplomat and commissar of foreign affairs (1930 39), who was a prominent advocate of world disarmament and of collective security with the Western powers against Nazi Germany before World War II.
Liu Yazhou, the deputy political commissar of the Chinese Air Force, wrote an essay circulated on Chinese Web sites in May that discussed preparations for conflict with Taiwan and quoted Mr. Jiang as saying, "We must fight a war with Taiwan".
