apparatchik

Example Sentences

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This was just another example of kangaroo court proceedings not uncommon at institutions of higher education that are administered by progressive apparatchiks too uneducated to understand the adjective “Kafkaesque.”

From Washington Post

Back then: Christian Conservatives + sleek businessmen + small town apparatchiks.

From Salon

And this is a cost the careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks, who leverage corporate money and corporate backing to seize and deform these organizations into appendages of the ruling class, do not intend to pay.

From Salon

“Zhang epitomized the image of the bland apparatchik that the party has worked hard to cultivate,” said Jude Blanchette, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

From New York Times

Trump and some of his most loyal apparatchiks, however, are not having it.

From Salon