Sentence examples similar to commissar- from inspiring English sources

Liashko said that he would be the "commissar" of the battalion but that it would take military orders from the army or the interior ministry.

When an army political commissar got abusive with a flight attendant, she posted photographs of the incident.

Sooner or later the CEOs mention Valerie Jarrett, who many depict as the commissar of the West Wing.In his interview, Mr Obama half fell into this stereotype, talking about CEOs only being motivated by shareholder value a caricature that infuriates business leaders who spend much of their time dealing with "stakeholders" of one sort or another.

First it was a paper circulated by his officials calling for the creation of a budget "commissar" with the power to control the Greek budget.

Nor did enough Ugandans feel inspired by an opposition leader who once served as Mr Museveni's personal surgeon and political commissar.

It counts against him that he once served as Mr Museveni's personal surgeon and chief political commissar.

The Democrats have called Mrs Harris a "Soviet commissar" and "a crook".

The atrocities two of them commit as soldiers one executes a Soviet commissar, the other a Jewish girl seem to come from their circumstances: obey or die.

One of Al Gore's hatchet-men has likened Mrs Harris to a "Soviet commissar"; another has dubbed her "Cruella DeVil".

With the triumph of the communist forces and the end of the Russian Civil War in 1920, Trotsky, retaining his office as commissar of war, turned his attention to the economic reconstruction of Russia.

After the Bolsheviks seized power (October 1917), he became commissar extraordinary for the Ukraine area (1918), a member of his party's Central Committee (1921), and chairman of the Central Committee's Caucasian bureau (1921).