apparatchik

Example Sentences

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The protests come one day after the Taliban announced an interim Cabinet composed exclusively of the group’s stalwarts and apparatchiks, with no women or former political figures and few minorities.

From Los Angeles Times

She’s a scary U.S. government apparatchik, who offers them the opportunity to go on suicidally dangerous secret missions in exchange for a promise to reduce their sentences.

From Seattle Times

Holland tracks his failures to finesse the postwar turnovers in power — though he did find a way with the Nazis — and his unorthodox approach and ample wealth don’t sit well with postwar apparatchiks.

From New York Times

Across the Florida Straits, Díaz-Canel, viewed largely as an apparatchik, dug in.

From Washington Post

And yet tennis apparatchiks seem to have assumed she would fall in line for the same reason golf ones presumed Koepka’s interview would be quietly passed around a private room: because that’s the done thing.

From New York Times