apparatchik

Example Sentences

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fired a senior official tasked with economic policy and condemned "incompetent" apparatchiks for delays in the opening of an important factory, state media said Tuesday.

From Barron's

“Who’s going to volunteer to be the next civil servant if they think their supervisor is an apparatchik?”

From Salon

Are they academics, scholars and scientists, or do they also include those of less elevated standing — technocrats, policy wonks, apparatchiks, pundits, journalists — who command a sizable public audience?

From Salon

Baehr seems to believe that cultural edicts can be handed down as imperiously as judicial opinions, so a handful of well-placed apparatchiks can redirect the zeitgeist.

From Seattle Times

In his social media appearances, Prigozhin offered a stark contrast to the straight-faced Kremlin apparatchiks, appearing in battlefield catacombs, the cockpit of an airborne military jet and Siberian penal colonies.

From Seattle Times