So the term apparatchik in the Soviet world really means something very familiar. ❋ Unknown (1991)
The former is headed by someone called Graham Dalton, who, it seems, is a time-serving apparatchik from the DoT, which, as we all know, is headed by that limpet-like nincompoop, Geoff BuffHoon, one of new Labour's 'Jack of All Trades & Master of None'. ❋ Unknown (2009)
To take on a job which would normally be the preserve of an apparatchik is odd to say the least. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So where does ABC News get off, on World News Tonight, with 11 million or so viewers watching, putting what amounts to a government apparatchik on TV, and then presenting his government-approved position as the "strongest argument for staying in Iraq," when in fact that government apparatchik is giving the party line lest his career be ended, and everybody knows that? ❋ Unknown (2005)
Nor do I think he will slink off to become a high paid, tax exempt international apparatchik, that is not in his nature. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A quick look on Wikipedia reveals that the bands name is the Swedish word for apparatchik, which is of Russian origin and is used to describe "people who cause bureaucratic bottlenecks in otherwise efficient organisations". ❋ Rich Hughes (2010)
As a matter of fact, the first one here is "apparatchik," which you mentioned earlier. ❋ Unknown (1991)
The excellent term "apparatchik" needs to be revived. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Obama's call to action isn't based on Sputnik; it's based on apparatchik. ❋ Ernest Istook (2011)
A prime specimen of this species can be seen in former Bush National Security official and Reagan State Department apparatchik Elliott Abrams. ❋ Eric Alterman (2011)
To rephrase President Obama's State of the Union theme: "This is our generation's apparatchik moment." ❋ Ernest Istook (2011)
Yes, he said "Sputnik" instead, but his actual agenda is about the apparatchik -- government by party leaders, bureaucrats and the well-connected. ❋ Ernest Istook (2011)
Such lingering vestige of apparatchik dictate shows a lack of leadership confidence in China's ability to navigate a global economy increasingly denominated by free market ideals. ❋ Rick Whittington (2011)
Not because she believed him to be the apparatchik of the corporate criminal class she had accused him of being, but because her relationships were transactional: temporary bargains made of compatible interests. ❋ Anonymous (2011)
"The choice between the American and Canadian healthcare models is simply a choice between different two different flavours of [statism] – each with somewhat different [vices], it’s true (e.g., do you prefer higher prices or longer waits?), but ultimately coming down to a matter of the percentage to which control of your healthcare is exercised by people sitting in government offices as opposed to being exercised by people sitting in governmentally-privileged 'private' offices – but in either case by ambitious, [avaricious] apparatchiks who aren’t you." ❋ MrApparatchik (2011)
Susan [McDougal] and [Monica Lewinsky] were apparatchiks, one [went down] for a crime the other went down. ❋ Harry Flashman (2003)
[Polly] repeats everything [the boss] says trying to [suck up]...she's apparatchik. ❋ Nilpferd (2003)
The Senator from New York was an apparatchik when it came to campaign money, she could smell it, [ferret] it out, [hoard] it, consume it and spend it, leaving only [droppings] as evidence it ever was. ❋ Megnao Flimpis (2003)
