Sentence examples for commissar on from inspiring English sources

Andile Mngxitama, its "commissar on land", said: "He is basically a black colonialist.

In fact, Joseph Stalin was unambiguously pro-hamburger: In the 1930s, he sent his food supply commissar on a research mission to the United States, which resulted in kotleti, a Soviet rip-off of the classic ground-beef burger, being popularized throughout Russia.

"The gate commissar, on inspection of the gate, said the gate was fine, the start commissar said he felt the release gate was fine, so the chief commissar ruled that there wasn't a mishap," he explained.

"We're not talking about imposing commissars on each Greek ministry as it's sometimes alleged in Athens, but ensuring that these fiscal commitments are met.

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.

If it had won the 1979 election, it would have inflicted political commissars on the BBC and delivered an enfeebled version of Channel 4. It was the Conservatives who ditched their election pledge to ITV2 and created Channel 4, which has been outstandingly successful.

This proposal was approved by Alexey Rykov, Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars on 6 July 1925.

She portrayed the stolid Soviet commissar Ninotchka (one of Greta Garbo's major film roles), who yields to romance on a spree in Paris.

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".

On October 5 Peng was named the Commander and the Commissar of the People's Volunteer Army and held both titles until the Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953.

On Tuesday, speaking in the southern province of Guangdong, Huang Shanchun, political commissar of the Guangdong Military Region, appeared to try to placate China's hawkish citizens.