I prefer to vote for a person, rather than a party apparatchik. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
So the term apparatchik in the Soviet world really means something very familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs & His Failure] Reference
To take on a job which would normally be the preserve of an apparatchik is odd to say the least. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Lamb Appointed Ming's Chief of Staff] Reference
As a matter of fact, the first one here is "apparatchik," which you mentioned earlier. From Wordnik.com. [Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs & His Failure] Reference
The excellent term "apparatchik" needs to be revived. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress] Reference
Mondale's a good guy, but he's an apparatchik to the core. From Wordnik.com. [Walter Mondale To Endorse Hillary] Reference
And of course Bolton's wife is a Brown apparatchik isn't she?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He's more like an American politician than a Chinese apparatchik. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2008] Reference
MCCAIN: But the fact is -- well, we know that he was an apparatchik. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: South Carolina Republican Debate - February 15, 2000] Reference
A 43-year-old apparatchik, Wang Wei wasn't the type to make headlines. From Wordnik.com. [Who's to Blame?] Reference
He behaves more like an American politician than a Chinese apparatchik. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2009] Reference
Unless he became a Party apparatchik, he'd gone as far as he ever would. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
And it is highly likely that some government apparatchik will be listening in. From Wordnik.com. [Yes, Big Brother Is Watching] Reference
That still does not make the army an easy partner for an apparatchik like Jiang. From Wordnik.com. [Out Of The Shadows] Reference
Powell is a typical apparatchik with a university degree, hardly the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Hard to believe a hard-right apparatchik like Hannity might not be that well-read. From Wordnik.com. [Hannity's Revised Feature: "Enemy Of The Week"] Reference
At worst it represents a top-down apparatchik-style view of the democratic process. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Myers: Citizens Slogging the Superdelegates] Reference
Luzhkov, a former Soviet apparatchik, has always favored a centrally planned economy. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting In The Wings] Reference
Back during the cold war, we had a word for this type of executive creation: apparatchik. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Grossman: FISA and the Caterpillars of the State] Reference
Chernomyrdin, the go-slow apparatchik who had taken Gaidar's place as prime minister, balked. From Wordnik.com. ['Boris Is Finally A Russian'] Reference
Robert Novak is a right-wing apparatchik and his version of "hope" is a throwback to the 1950s. From Wordnik.com. [Rod McCullom: This is What Barack Obama Should Tell Bob Novak: "Put Up or STFU!"] Reference
All that reporting and you used the words “sinecure” and “apparatchik” in the same piece. From Wordnik.com. [Midterm Roundup] Reference
Another non-actor, the novelist Jerzy Kosinski, was brilliant as Zinoviev, the Soviet apparatchik. From Wordnik.com. [Thunder on the Left] Reference
Known as an efficient, middle-of-the-road apparatchik, he has a wry charm but little stage presence. From Wordnik.com. [The New Low Lights On The Left] Reference
Like prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his deputy, L.K. Advani, Modi became an RSS apparatchik. From Wordnik.com. [Modi's Moment] Reference
I mean, you won't hear McAuliffe or some high-level Clinton apparatchik say it on 'Hardball' (maybe). From Wordnik.com. [Hillary: Pledged Delegates Can Switch Candidates] Reference
They are, in fact, run as a personal fiefdom by one Juan Antonio Samaranch, an old Franco apparatchik. From Wordnik.com. [Glory Days] Reference
Hu's predecessor, Jiang Zemin, was thought to be a plodding apparatchik for years after he took power. From Wordnik.com. [Nuke Jitters] Reference
Serious corruption allegations surround Berezovsky and another powerful Kremlin apparatchik, Pavel Borodin. From Wordnik.com. [Masters Of The Kremlin] Reference
Step Twelve: Have a party apparatchik officially proclaim that there's a witch-hunt, and you're the victim. From Wordnik.com. [Michael B. Laskoff: The Twelve-Step Program to Becoming a Political Witch Hunt Victim] Reference
Later when one Beijing apparatchik saw Pengfei's friends trying to raise donations, the bureaucrat exploded. From Wordnik.com. [Facing A Demon] Reference
Mussolini was a premier intellectual and theoretician of his era, not a mere political bully or apparatchik. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Yet only Dubya stands 100 percent behind the man whom The New York Times labeled a "dull-witted apparatchik.". From Wordnik.com. [Bill Katovsky: Bush's New Way Forward -- Again and Again] Reference
In trying to use its parvenu power and push Google around, some government apparatchik has overplayed his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Google's Faustian Bargain Unravels] Reference
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