Sentence examples for commissar to from inspiring English sources

We refer the East German sun-bathing commissar to th fate of one Games Organizer we met a couple of years ago.

The current European attitude was best captured by a document that was circulated as part of the now-abandoned German proposal to force Greece to accept a "budget commissar" to supervise its spending.

In 1921, Lenin told Anatoly Lunacharsky, the cultural commissar, to "lay all the theatres in the grave" — to destroy them — and focus on the urgent needs of the workers and the peasants: literacy, food, medicine.

Ninotchka is a humorless, unromantic official dispatched by her commissar to Paris, where three delightfully clownish comrades have been botching a mission to reacquire a former duchess's court jewels.

In 1921, Lenin told Anatoly Lunacharsky, the cultural commissar, to "lay all the theatres in the grave"—to destroy them and focus on the urgent needs of the workers and the peasants: literacy, food, medicine.

Beginning as commissar to a construction platoon, Khrushchev rose to become commissar to a construction battalion and was sent from the front for a two-month political course.

It seems doubtful, though, that all of that discourse amounted to a conspiracy on the part of unnamed cultural commissars to assert their own power.

The commission itself remained under the close supervision of the Council of People's Commissars to ensure that it complied with party directives, and the commission's members were appointed directly by the council.

It confirmed that less than a year after the war ended, Kuchumov had been sent by SovNarKom, the Council of People's Commissars, to investigate the fate of the treasure that he had failed to evacuate.

The Shape of the Table, which premiered in November 1990, the first anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, explores the transfer of power in a former communist state from the old political commissars to the dissidents they have been oppressing.

The absolutist sovereign did possess the sovereign power to decide on the exception, and was thus capable of authorizing commissars to use dictatorial methods in his name.