Either player could pass or run at any time, creating confusion for defenses and delight for fans, until the N.F.L. conformity commissar orders the Panthers to return to some variation on the West Coast offense or else incur a salary-cap penalty.
In Antony Beevor's history of the Battle of Stalingrad, the brutality and waste of the Stalinist regime — prisoners left to die in the snow, political commissars ordering the execution of innocents, the dead of the great purges haunting the whole — is sickening.
On 9 April 1945, the Council of People's Commissars ordered the Yakovlev OKB to develop a single-seat jet fighter to be equipped with a single German Jumo 004 engine.
In February 1945, the Council of People's Commissars ordered the Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) OKB to develop a single-seat jet fighter to be equipped with two German BMW 003 engines.
"In one document... a K.G.B. commissar issues an order to shoot 400 people," he says.
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.
The full-scale mockup was found to be acceptable on 16 February 1946 and the Council of People's Commissars issued an order on 26 February that the manufacturer's flight testing was to begin on 1 November.
As early as April 1918, some Romanian volunteer groups joined up with the Bolshevik Red Army, taking their orders from Commissar Béla Kun, but some of their members continued to serve the nationalist cause.
Dazzlement faded at 16 or so when the budding commissar had to expel, on higher orders, three fellow members.
Lin's system of indoctrination made it clear that the Party was clearly in command of China's armed forces, and Lin ensured that the army's political commissars enjoyed great power and status in order to see that his directives were followed.
