The boss says one thing, while his apparatchiks say another.
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By the time Levandowski arrived, Google's apparatchiks were in ascent.
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The same takeover by apparatchiks is taking place in politics.
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"The older apparatchiks would defend the North Korean line," he said.
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Mr Díaz-Canel has sometimes seemed more liberal than other apparatchiks.
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Dutiful entrepreneurs and obedient apparatchiks may be easy subjects to govern.
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Rockwell, Wilson and Stephen Merchant are hilarious as various Nazi apparatchiks.
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And in Moscow in the 1930s, the apparatchiks' priority was self-preservation.
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Even allies are not permitted a hint of mischief—in 2017, apparatchiks
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Growing up in Warsaw, "the only elites were the Communist apparatchiks," he says.
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Since Tiananmen, stale apparatchiks have been replaced by bright technocrats—and even entrepreneurs.
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That's what right-wing apparatchiks do, and you don't want to emulate them.
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Congress passed the Magnitsky Act, barring certain apparatchiks from entering the United States.
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But C.C.P. apparatchiks, in their pursuit of authoritarianism, have sidelined those mitigating factors.
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Armies of gender apparatchiks are monitoring and policing speech, ideas, humor, and sexuality.
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To them, 1989 was an immoral deal as most apparatchiks got off scot-free.
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In France, party apparatchiks choose their party's presidential candidate without any input from voters.
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But Mr. Sanders is seen as empowering regular voters against the will of party apparatchiks.
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The apparatchiks of the social justice left piled on to ensure that heads would roll.
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For most voters, Abe is just another establishment leader surrounded by Japan's nomenclaturas and apparatchiks.
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I'd say that this goes even more for professional G.O.P. politicos, who are all apparatchiks.
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His long tenure froze the Republican hierarchy and the ambitions of its apparatchiks under him.
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A few years ago his lifestyle would have served as a model for other ex-apparatchiks.
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Besides, the regime's apparatchiks are exiling their own children even as they condemn the harga. Why?
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Many congressional Republicans have acted like blackmailed Russian apparatchiks, not the lawmakers of an independent Republic.
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But these Chinese platforms come with heavy government surveillance and censorship by corporate and party apparatchiks.
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Liberals and the Soviet apparatchiks fought over its memory, and Ms Alexievich was on the front lines.
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Comrade, your continued obsession with those who refuse to be apparatchiks for Russia suggests resentment and envy.
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The difference today is that politicians and policy apparatchiks now understand this as well as the comedians.
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We keep seeing people who once appeared to have some sense of decency turn into abject apparatchiks.
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Former members of SAVAK [the secret intelligence organization] and other regime apparatchiks ended up in Beverly Hills.
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Labour apparatchiks draw up "composite motions" in late-night conclaves, far from the prying eyes of ordinary mortals.
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Its Jewish author's vigilant attention to the anti-Semitism perpetrated by both systems embarrassed Soviet apparatchiks for decades.
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Et puis, tout en luttant contre la harga, les apparatchiks du régime n'exilent-ils pas leurs propres enfants?
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It offers a flood of voices: doctors and writers, deli workers and former Kremlin apparatchiks, soldiers and waitresses.
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In the party headquarters, I went up and down in the crammed elevator with its sweating, besuited apparatchiks.
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Still, government apparatchiks didn't like seeing Fonda and Hepburn's faces filling their people with ideas about Western excellence.
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That think tanks will hire the most corrupt and entrenched apparatchiks to write reports about corruption and nepotism.
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The fact that the G.O.P. is a party of apparatchiks was one crucial factor in last year's election.
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Stereotypes about North Koreans being a nation of mindless slaves or communist apparatchiks undoubtedly persist in the US too.
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So divisive had the issue been that party apparatchiks agreed in advance to mute their reactions to the result.
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His star power contrasted with the indifference most Vietnamese show for the stiff apparatchiks of the ruling Communist Party.
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Party apparatchiks took the stage pledging loyalty to Mnangagwa and denouncing the "G40 cabal" and even, more controversially, Mugabe.
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The institutionalists include the party apparatchiks who imagine they can manage and constrain Trump if he gets the nomination.
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Whether or not this was a random crime or a parry from local Esposito apparatchiks, she would never determine.
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Politicians and party apparatchiks hold up political parties as the only vehicle by which ideas can be turned into policies.
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They are a diverse group, from hidebound apparatchiks to bureaucrats who teach themselves English by listening to foreign radio broadcasts.
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Thang was an unusually outspoken official among normally-reticent Communist Party apparatchiks, known for his forthright comments on sensitive issues.
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Pavlovsky's colleagues laughed at his choice of address: by then, fashionable Kremlin apparatchiks lived in walled-off mansions outside town.
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The idea is that there is an ingrained secret subculture of government apparatchiks bent on the destruction of his presidency.
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But I was intrigued, and suspected that the interrogation would cast a rare light on the apparatchiks of Putin's propaganda machine.
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Distant, out-of-touch private managers could simply be replaced by distant, out-of-touch public bosses or by party apparatchiks.
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Sometimes, the excessive zeal of apparatchiks produces returns of more than 100 percent, as happens regularly in Russian regions like Chechnya.
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Keszthely used to be a magnet for Communist-era workers and apparatchiks before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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She was known to dial up its reporters when she had an opinion none of the President's apparatchiks wanted to hear.
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We are now ruled by about 28500 central bankers, monetary apparatchiks and their minions on Wall Street and other financial centers.
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Mr Walesa's most fervid opponents are not aging apparatchiks, but other men who battled communism, some of whom are now in power.
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In the letter, the pope added that he expected "good candidates" for bishop to be Catholic pastors, and not mere government apparatchiks.
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What this means is that nearly all Republicans in today's Congress are apparatchiks, political creatures with no higher principle beyond party loyalty.
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Many modern leaders are apparatchiks who have worked their way up through the party hierarchy, and have never done a job outside politics.
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Moscow dissidents saw this as an opportunity: They could use this commitment against the apparatchiks, by claiming the right to publish every violation.
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Mr. Xi recently visited the three main newsrooms in the country to convey in unmistakable terms that journalists are expected to behave like apparatchiks.
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Bex Bailey, a Labour activist, has said that she was raped by a "party figure" and then discouraged from reporting it by Labour apparatchiks.
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Many of the delegates to Hamburg, a hotch-potch of state representatives, local politicians and party apparatchiks, have not yet decided whom to back.
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Mr Kaczynski's goal is to complete what he sees as the unfinished revolution of 1989, sweeping away corruption and influence of old communist apparatchiks.
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In April, in a rare public appearance at the Communist Party conference, Fidel Castro shocked party apparatchiks by referring to his own imminent mortality.
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Mr. Jiang brought Mr. Wang to Beijing, where he stood out as a rare academic within a party leadership dominated by engineers and apparatchiks.
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It's highly reminiscent of the 1930s, when Stalin purged longstanding officials from high-level government positions and replaced them with young and unknown apparatchiks.
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Akhmetshin is a well-established Washington power broker who has worked to advance the agendas of Kremlin apparatchiks and influential clients from former Soviet states.
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The party's institutional leaders and rank-and-file apparatchiks, by contrast, have a great deal of personal, emotional, and intellectual investment in the larger project.
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This romantic view set him on a collision course with the apparatchiks from Moscow, who took over Latin American communist parties shortly after his death.
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Those folk traditions it refers to provided nourishment to national identity during occupation, even though those traditions were often banned by apparatchiks loyal to Moscow.
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According to Hickey, beauty, once the handmaiden of art, had been sacrificed on the altar of political correctness by a censorious ring of tenured apparatchiks.
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He is, instead, pandering to the party's elite, consisting mainly of big donors and the network of apparatchiks at think tanks, media organizations, and so on.
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The Conservatives lost none of their flagship councils in London, despite doom-laden predictions from the press (encouraged by Conservative Party apparatchiks keen to lower expectations).
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This is certainly the view of some of the Obama apparatchiks DeVos hired to help her implement ESSA, so these developments should come as no surprise.
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And modern Republican politicians are, with few exceptions, apparatchiks: they are creatures of a monolithic movement that doesn't allow dissent but protects the loyal from risk.
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If they also come away understanding that in this case, that outcome was more the fault of a government and its apparatchiks, so much the better.
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The Bernie bros, still incensed that the Democratic National Committee torpedoed their man in 2202, are furious that party apparatchiks are blocking their advance once again.
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Gauchos, I knew, were Argentine cowboys, but gauleiters (pronounced gow-lieders), I learned, were municipal bureaucrats in the early Nazi government; in other words, menacing apparatchiks.
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Ironically, it was the power of the general secretary and the party apparatchiks' continued fear of offending him that allowed Mr Gorbachev to achieve what he did.
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In the postwar Communist years, party apparatchiks in Poland tried to control the church, and the pope's opposition to Communism would be one signature of his papacy.
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It sits atop a pyramid of power composed by several strata of National Liberation Front apparatchiks, state officials and business tycoons connected by family or regional ties.
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But the modern G.O.P. basically consists of career apparatchiks who live in an intellectual bubble, and those Reagan-era stereotypes still dominate their picture of struggling Americans.
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The situation is eerily reminiscent of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, when the ruling apparatchiks were all-powerful but losing the fundamental, moral legitimacy to govern.
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Mr. Navalny, 40, is a handsome, telegenic figure with a model family, much more approachable than the usually dour apparatchiks churned out by the Kremlin bureaucratic mill.
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Today's Republicans are apparatchiks, who have spent their whole lives inside an intellectual bubble in which cutting taxes on corporations and the rich is always objective #1.
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The opportunity to avoid such a meltdown might only arrive if incompetent Trump apparatchiks take stock of the transition team's immense dysfunction and withdraw from hiring consideration themselves.
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The station's listeners are sympathetic to conspiracy theories positing that the parties that have ruled Poland since the 1990s (apart from PiS) are secretly controlled by communist apparatchiks.
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At far left is a cluttered desk where almost comical apparatchiks (Robert Ian Mackenzie and Michael Lewis), overseen by a K.G.B. officer (Kate Konigisor), monitor Akhmatova (Ellen McLaughlin).
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It may simply be that a party of apparatchiks feels uncomfortable with people who have any real expertise or independent reputation, no matter how loyal they may seem.
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It controls perks dispensed to obedient Kremlin apparatchiks, but also covert action programs of the sort that resulted in the Trump dossier assembled by Christopher Steele in 2016.
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Yet the rapid concentration of power under President Xi Jinping — helped along by the steady purging of officials suspected of corruption — has put apparatchiks and bureaucrats on edge.
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Inevitably, politicians came to seem ungenuine, all wearing the same approved dark suit and power tie, all mouthing the same scripted party lines like apparatchiks from some totalitarian system.
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There's currently a power vacuum at UEFA and the ECA (European Club Association), and it's been taken advantage of to impose this reform with the help of UEFA apparatchiks.
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Property rights have been liberalized to permit homeownership, and behind the party's formidable internet firewall, entrepreneurs have built a politics-free, app-friendly economy that even apparatchiks can like.
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But while this is true for some apparatchiks, my guess is that it's not nearly as true for many – certainly not for the Republican base in the general public.
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It is torn between a young majority that seeks normalized relations with the world, and the aging apparatchiks of the theocracy who depend on "Death to America" and confrontation.
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And in a twist that should set apparatchiks rolling in their graves, affection for the socialist era is mainly embodied in consumer products, some of them marketed by Western multinationals.
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I'm not talking about the rage of G.O.P. apparatchiks, who hated and feared the A.C.A., not because they thought it would fail, but because they were afraid it would work.
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The only potential peer competitor today is China, a nation that is playing a much more sophisticated and multidimensional game than the old Soviet apparatchiks played during the Cold War.
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Over the years, it became a home to oligarchs, apparatchiks and wealthy businessmen who would benefit from tax exemptions, even as the government struggled to plug a growing budget deficit.
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They were the president's connection to the Washington establishment: the donors, flacks and apparatchiks of both parties whose influence over politics and the economy many Trump supporters wish to upend.
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Such leaders may be less vulnerable to the vagaries of public opinion, but they are usually beholden to powerful and opaque groups, such as army generals, party apparatchiks and oligarchs.
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There will be a McDonald's in Moscow, but the sudden transition to capitalism will replace apparatchiks with oligarchs and leave ordinary Russians adrift in a country they no longer recognize.
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Who might not wreak havoc if we had legions of zealous followers, a handful of nervous (and nuclear) foreign powers, and hundreds of loyal apparatchiks all hanging on our every tweet?
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There are also plenty of these apparatchiks in the conference hall—including the leader of the species, John McDonnell, a hatchet-faced man who has spent his life on the far left.
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Ignorance was a feature, not a bug, of the war on terror, one that allowed Bush apparatchiks to drastically expand executive power and to evade the often disastrous consequences of their actions.
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Yet Najib, who has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing, retains a tight grip on UMNO by commanding a vast patronage system that spreads the largesse among ordinary Malays as well as party apparatchiks.
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Apparatchiks who have spent their whole careers inside the bubble of right-wing think tanks and partisan media may suffer from the delusion that their ideology is actually popular with real people.
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At this point it's evidently composed entirely of cynical apparatchiks, willing to sell out every principle — and every shred of their own dignity — as long as their donors get big tax cuts.
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Party apparatchiks will no doubt engage in an orgy of Reaganolatry, but the broader public probably won't be moved by (false) claims about the wondrous results of tax cuts 36 years ago.
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Moreover, South Carolina, where Mr Graham has a strong network of donors and apparatchiks, could be decisive in choosing which mainstream Republican candidate emerges from the, currently-crowded, pack, to challenge Mr Trump.
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All of these maneuvers and many more will likely be justified by various Republican apparatchiks, pointing to some Democratic perfidy from the time of Jim Wright, or Dan Rostenkowski, or possibly Bobby Baker.
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And they certainly can't depend on a federal government run by an administration that has a habit of picking anti-union apparatchiks for Labor secretary, ones who consistently favor business interests over workers.
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Wright's own righteous anger is aimed at the usual pestilent enemies of the natural world and ecological balance — parasitic insects or their human kin, "developers, apparatchiks, celebrities, lobbyists" — her zingers outdistancing predictable "green" rants.
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Too many of its officials have become political apparatchiks, fearful of making decisions that anger their superiors and too removed and haughty when dealing with the public to admit mistakes and learn from them.
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" "Even if nothing happens" as a result of these reviews, Rottinghaus added, Trump "can say, 'Well the bureaucracy was against me and it's staffed by Obama-era apparatchiks and they're all out to get me.
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The result is an establishment comprising apparatchiks, men (mainly) who have spent their entire professional lives in an environment where repeating approved orthodoxy guarantees an easy life, while any deviation from that orthodoxy means excommunication.
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And the people who rise within this movement are, to a far greater degree than those on the other side, apparatchiks, political loyalists who can be counted on not to stray from the party line.
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I guess you might have hoped that there would be some limits to what these apparatchiks would accept, that even they would draw the line at gross abuses of power and collusion with foreign autocrats.
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He tells us that the context for this work is a Chinese contemporary art scene that's often presented as deliberately provoking the ire of political apparatchiks, but that really only functions as a tourist attraction.
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What the right's positioning on inequality, climate and now Russian election interference have in common is that in each case the people pretending to be making a serious argument are actually apparatchiks operating in bad faith.
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These conservative apparatchiks know what socialism is and aren't afraid to say it: a $15-an-hour minimum wage, paid maternity leave, free college, universal health care, well-paved roads, subsidized housing, public television, and so on.
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In the past, those who strayed too far from official ideology were punished; for example, the author Wang Meng spent over a decade exiled to northwestern China because of a single story that was critical of Party apparatchiks.
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The ones who did appear found varying ways to cover themselves in dishonor — some with pained, phoned-in endorsements, some with opportunistic zeal, and some by simply being good apparatchiks and squashing the last attempt at delegate dissent.
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On the other hand, Russian Communist officials, apparatchiks, and newspapers saw in America's unfolding racial crisis an opportunity to shield the Soviet Union from criticism of its own human rights violations, creeping authoritarianism, and barely concealed imperial ambitions.
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In addition, many Poles were disgusted with the persistence of ex-Communists in Poland's economic and political life, which was a consequence of the decision made by Solidarity leaders not to prosecute the apparatchiks of the old regime.
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Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and the other PED poster boys have been cropped out of posterity's textbook with an efficiency that eluded proto-Photoshopping Soviet apparatchiks, and it seems likely that Rodriguez will share their fate.
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"We are now in the early episodes of 'Chernobyl' on HBO, where the reactor is melting down and the apparatchiks are trying to figure out whether to cover it up or start the clean-up process," Scaramucci said.
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The last party congress, 36 years ago, unveiled a new generation of party apparatchiks and a reshuffling of the ruling apparatus to ready for Kim Jong Il's rule, which only began 14 years later when his father died.
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Everything in neat arrangement, amorous couples in the bright apparel of spring, penniless ancients stood in awe of the king, the awfully rich young American in the armor of prosperity, anthropomorphic deities, movie studio apparatchiks, aficionados of the bullfight.
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In February, when he visited state and party news organizations to inform them that their main job was to serve the Communist Party, Mr. Xi and his apparatchiks appeared on the set of Central Television News in matching jackets.
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Though the Kremlin is engaged in a constant balancing act between appeasing corrupt state apparatchiks at various levels and managing public anger towards those officials, there is a generally understood foundational rule: never be seen to bend to public pressure.
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That unelected apparatchiks of the permanent bureaucracy wield the power to delay, derail and deny prerogatives of the government elected by the people and do so in secret and with encouragement of opposition politicians and media should give us all pause.
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It wants to please the viewer by showing us the rich as grinning idiots, government regulators as dim apparatchiks and the whistle-blower Harry Markopolos (Frank Whaley), the closest thing the story has to a hero, as a sweaty, twitching numbers geek.
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Leaving his squabbling opponents behind, Mr. Abadi moved to another meeting room, where supportive lawmakers declared a quorum and approved several new ministers — technocrats, not party apparatchiks — as a step to end sectarian politics and the corruption and patronage that support it.
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A real-estate baron, with the wealthiest Cabinet in U.S. history, Trump is at peace with the plutocracy but at war with the clerks—the apparatchiks who, he claims, are seeking to nullify the election by denying the prerogatives of his Administration.
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But what directly drives the attack on democracy, I'd argue, is simple careerism on the part of people who are apparatchiks within a system insulated from outside pressures by gerrymandered districts, unshakable partisan loyalty, and lots and lots of plutocratic financial support.
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Despite what appears to have been a historically rare period of decent access for foreign correspondents to Fidel Castro, we were a difficult group and had been loudly complaining to apparatchiks that it had been weeks since we'd spoken to the bearded one.
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ON OCTOBER 22022th, one day after the close of a five-yearly congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the president, the prime minister and five lesser-known apparatchiks stepped onto a red carpet in Beijing's Great Hall of the People and onto the world's stage.
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The "wave" at the Havana baseball stadium by President Obama did not release any Cuban political prisoners, didn't protect the "Women in White" from being attacked by Castro apparatchiks, didn't allow any Cuban man, woman or child, including baseball players, to leave Cuba without permission.
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Advisers like Kellyanne Conway, lawmakers like Senator Lindsey Graham and the former House Speaker Paul Ryan, party apparatchiks like the Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel and a whole host of Trump-friendly media personalities may not personally share the president's views or policy aims.
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THE STORY The writer-director Armando Iannucci, best known for "Veep," turns his satirical eye on Soviet-era political intrigue with a biting comedy about the various apparatchiks, including Khrushchev and Molotov, who use lies, threats and jokes to grab power after the event of the title.
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Strzeminski crawls over to his window — he lost an arm and a leg from injuries suffered in World War I — and pokes at the banner with one of his crutches, rending the fabric somewhat, which attracts the attention of the apparatchiks in charge of the operation.
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THERE is really only one intellectual pursuit as unhealthy as a burning drive to reach the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, and that is a morbid fascination with the apparatchiks—their faces pasty and most of their hair unnaturally black—that compose it.
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"We are now in the early episodes of 'Chernobyl' on HBO, where the reactor is melting down and the apparatchiks are trying to figure out whether to cover it up or start the clean-up process," Scaramucci, who was ousted from his job after 11 days, told the outlet.
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Many Catholics in Poland and Hungary view Pope Francis the way die-hard Communists and party apparatchiks viewed the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during the height of "Gorbymania" in the late 1980s — a dangerous revisionist corrupted by media attention who threatens the integrity and power of their faith.
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Her stories rove from the Midwest, where she was born, to the metropolitan centers and foreign outposts of American power and concern the fate of artists and intellectuals, bankers, movie stars and C.I.A. apparatchiks, as well as drifters, dropouts and dead-enders, the politically displaced and the existentially homeless.
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It is true that part of Sanders's success has come via his ability to galvanize the members of the Democratic constituency who have been served the least effectively by the institutional Democratic establishment—those consultants and fundraisers and the party apparatchiks ruling little fiefdoms in consequence-free perpetuity.
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After arriving at the airport, members and assorted apparatchiks were ushered into private cars, ferried along exclusive highway lanes—look out the window, and there were Rio 2016-branded walls to mask the favelas—and dropped off at their exclusive hotels ringed by security, so only those with credentials could enter.
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Tuong Vu, a political scientist at the University of Oregon, said Mr. Trong would probably be more receptive to hard-line party apparatchiks who argue against opening the country's state-dominated agricultural and service sectors to foreign competitors and against a draft law that would codify rights for nongovernmental associations in Vietnam.
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When a delegation of apparatchiks came to see him, he took it for granted that they were coming to depose him, since that's what he would have done in their place, and was startled when they begged him to step forward and lead, being themselves dependent on the cult of the great leader.
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Here is James Delingpole, one of those with feet in both sceptical camps: Euroscepticism and climate scepticism often go hand in hand, first because many of the very worst, most destructive environmental policies (such as the commitment to "decarbonise" the economy, which led to Bryony Worthington's 2008 Climate Change Act) are originally dreamed up by EU apparatchiks.
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Between 1982 and 19853, the Communist Party lost three consecutive general secretaries: Leonid Brezhnev at 75, Yuri Andropov 15 months later at 69, and Konstantin Chernenko 13 months after that at 73 (Herzog captures this sequence with his characteristic morbid humor, incorporating archival footage of Chernenko being propped up, Weekend at Bernie's-style, by Party apparatchiks).
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Chozick describes Clinton's press shop (which she calls "The Guys") as an anonymous gang of manipulative, unresponsive and vaguely menacing apparatchiks who alternate between denying her interview requests (47 in total, by her count), bullying her in retaliation for perceived negative coverage ("You've got a target on your back," one of them tells her) and exploiting her insecurities about keeping up with her (often male) colleagues.
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In fact, well through the Cold War and all the way into the neoliberal decades that preceded Trump, the received wisdom in America about writers functioning under state patronage was that it was a feature of totalitarian societies and tinpot Third World republics, redolent of the constrictions of socialist realism and the power of culture apparatchiks who measured writers according to their conformity with approved ideas, dealing out censorship to the brave and prizes to the most compromised.
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