Noun : a position of leadership within the party apparat; The chess apparat is not eager to change tournament rules.    From Dictionary.com. 

But Mr. Medvedev's lack of a background in the security services or a base of support in the apparat was a plus.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Other Presidential Campaign] Reference

Mr. Medvedev's lack of a background in the security services or a base of support in the apparat was a plus for the incumbent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookshelf / By Kent Owen] Reference

The Democratic Party national "apparat" lacks the guts and sense to stand up for what our country was founded for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denunciation of Democratic Party Apparat] Reference

"apparat" fighting discrimination simply because the realization of the goal might take time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy] Reference

But I will not support the apparat in any way whatsoever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denunciation of Democratic Party Apparat] Reference

And that someone will fling it in the faces of the apparat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denunciation of Democratic Party Apparat] Reference

The apparat can't get anything substantive passed in Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denunciation of Democratic Party Apparat] Reference

Ronald Reagan swept all that apparat away on his first day in office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Blackwell: Guarding Jimmy Carter's Tongue] Reference

But the apparat has no idea what to do but to snipe and fiddle at the edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denunciation of Democratic Party Apparat] Reference

Reform is always possible, even in the face of resistance by the old apparat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from the Gdansk Prison] Reference

T.W. Trice was the second name on the chart of the House Tregesser security apparat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Never Sleeps]

"Lady, you're about to see the full might of the Luna Command propaganda apparat in action.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfishers]

Yes, Dodd, Feingold and Wu have raised the subject; but interest on the part of the apparat?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denunciation of Democratic Party Apparat] Reference

The apparat is in a lather deciding how to strengthen rules against lobbyists 'influence on Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denunciation of Democratic Party Apparat] Reference

I recognize that there are Democratic Congresspeople who have bucked the apparat, at least on occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denunciation of Democratic Party Apparat] Reference

One side maintains that he is a citizen being punished by the state apparat for publishing some cartoons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Now that the apparat was discredited, there would be no further excuse for these debilitating compromised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling Idols] Reference

And somehow, the press is beginning to focus -- finally -- on the apparat itself and some of its uglier sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2007] Reference

And there are many other topics of major importance which the apparat is indifferent to or frightened to touch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denunciation of Democratic Party Apparat] Reference

And certainly the polls in South Carolina, New Hampshire and Iowa are very dire right now for the Clinton apparat.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2007] Reference

So far the recovery has favored the government-dominated apparat and those places where public workers congregate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Cities For Jobs] Reference

Useful tidbits from the East German intelligence apparat, and all the Eastern Bloc clones of their common master, the RGB.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sum of all Fears]

The stress was once again on expertise, on careful organizational approaches — in short on creating an efficient apparat.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Exchange on China] Reference

So it is better all around to go on believing that the whole neocon apparat will somehow be dumped in the very near future.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chimes at Midnight] Reference

(Other captives have been tortured by the military, by hired contractors, and by various other organs of the security apparat.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrist-slap and Tickle: Obama Goes Mild on CIA Torture] Reference

It was in the army that Mao's anti-apparat policy was most ardently pursued (e.g., ranks were abolished, command decentralized).    From Wordnik.com.  [An Exchange on China] Reference

Russia about the nature and workings of the ANC security apparat, in order to assist the true ANC democrats into an enquiry into.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In the past, Gorbachev had tacked cautiously from left to right, never moving too far for fear of antagonizing the party apparat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling Idols] Reference

CARL BERNSTEIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: She and her campaign apparat were unprepared for a modern post-millennial presidential campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2008] Reference

The photographer was my old friend Bill Seil, who was at the time a newspaper reporter and is now ensconced in the Boeing PR apparat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Personal Note] Reference

In the latter case he would of course either have to restore the prerogatives of the central Party apparat, or to rely upon the Army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making the History of 1989] Reference

On the one hand, their apparat acts like thugs in many instances, especially the press apparat, now run by a guy named Howard Wolfson.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2007] Reference

No doubt she would be invited in for some vodka, caviar and a nookie fest in the back room on an army cot with the entire security apparat.    From Wordnik.com.  ["This war did not begin because of a miscalculation by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.] Reference

GRU apparat, alleging that he "was an agent of Soviet miliary intelligence.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]

Instead the usual search-replace tool, maybe a new search apparat maybe would be implemented.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinity] Reference