(in theSovietUnionuntil 1946) theofficialtitleof theheadof agovernmentdepartment, or anofficialresponsibleforpoliticaleducation,especiallyin amilitarygroup
Like Lenin, he surrounded himself with commissars, having absolute authority.
The commissar shouted: "What, still alive!" and fired two more point-blank shots at the prostrate man.
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The rivalry between commander andcommissarwas particularly intense because all orders or directives had to be co-signed by the two officers.
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Within a month, the people'scommissarresponsible for the area was considering cultural autonomy.
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The supervisorycommissarcould order the expert of the afflicted district to undertake the investigations of suspected grapevines.
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The divisional commanders were frequently in friction with the political commissars.
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First, the commissar's duties were so imprecisely or ambiguously stated that it permitted him to indulge in matters that were within neither his purview nor his competence.
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Thecommissar'forbade under the penalty of death to give any help to the people on the train' 99 and escorted the 200 to the synagogue.
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Koestler, in this book, plays both yogi andcommissar.
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Ratsimandrava wished to create units of basic development that would be somewhat like rural soviets, but lacking commissars to oversee their activities.
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We are getting, for want of a better term, acommissar-type of bureaucracy.
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He wants these commissars to boss, direct, and interfere with those great gas undertakings, municipal and private.
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We would have rule by party caucus—we are already beginning to get a taste of that—and, of course, theircommissarleaders.
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Words such as "central fund" are the sort of words which fall readily from the lips of commissars.
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Now, they can run to thecommissarto try to bring the unions into disrepute.
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Let us make no bones about the fact that we would be right back with thecommissar.
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He has been, in turn, capitalist, civil servant, andcommissar.
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