party functionaries

collocation in English

meaningsofpartyandfunctionary

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party
noun
uk
/ˈpɑː.ti/us
/ˈpɑːr.t̬i/
a social event at which a group of people meet to talk, eat, drink, dance, etc., often in order to celebrate a ...
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functionary
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.er.i/
a person who has official duties, especially in a government or ...
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(Definition ofpartyandfunctionaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Eachpartyfunctionaryrepresented a local constituency, and most of the constituencies were ethnically distinct.
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It seemed quite clear from discussions with both party functionaries and staff that few genuinely believed that ' enemy activity ' played a significant role in illegal emigration.
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In fact, in the end, it means control by party and retired and defunct party functionaries being pushed up to the upper chamber.
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They have established a pattern of organisation for their respective parties, and in the villages they have placed their people to act as party functionaries.
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We do not like power being handed over from the people to the apparatchiks or party functionaries.
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The inefficient state monopolies have been run by party functionaries who have managed by political direction, not by enterprise management.
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There are clever party functionaries who say that the problem is not that women are being discriminated against but that not enough women are putting themselves forward.
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The system focuses on co-operation among workers, technicians, and party functionaries at the factory level.
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Local administrators and communist party functionaries interfered with scientists on either ethnical or ideological grounds.
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The film, which ostensibly depicts a marriage crisis, was heavily criticized by party functionaries due to a perceived criticism of the socialist society.
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In addition to party functionaries, there were advisors, translators and writers who came with their families.
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This focussed on more frequent and regular elections and direct election of individual party functionaries.
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The flying squad had received information that the political party functionaries might distribute cash.
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