Commissar in a sentence

Difficulty: you've got a commissar behind you who will shoot you if you don't.

Zanu-PF national political commissar Mike Bimha told The Standard that mobilisation of new members of the party was an ongoing process that had no time frame.

That didn’t pan out, but the new Soviet commissar for nationalities, Josef Stalin (yes, Stalin) reneged and established NK as an autonomous within the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR).

Zanu PF is set to elect an interim Bulawayo provincial chairperson following the death of national hero Cde Absolom Sikhosana last month, the party's national political commissar, Cde Victor Matemadanda has confirmed.

Asked by journalists about the party’s renewal policy considering they faced the MDC led by a youthful Nelson Chamisa Matemadanda said he was a new political commissar and that showed renewal.

Marondera — Zanu-PF officials and war veterans in Mashonaland East are at each other's' throats over the control of the influential position of provincial political commissar.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been urged to fire his National Political Commissar Victor Matemadanda due to his failure to organise the much-hyped anti-sanctions march.

Social media users compared Matemadanda with the exiled Saviour Kasukuwere who used to fill up all the stadiums during his time as Commissar.

Their citizens don't really have a problem with the Capitalists, but Commissar takes strong umbrage to their lack of hatred towards Americans.

Hungwe, who is Zanu-PF deputy political commissar, did not stand in the recently held primary elections.

Of course, the entire Lacoste faction was in total control although eyebrows were raised over the absence of political commissar Engelbert Rugeje.

Why think… when a state-led AI Commissar can do the thinking for you?

Zanu-PF Manicaland provincial political commissar Gift Kagweda said they were still gathering facts on what transpired.

Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo was not available for comment while party national commissar Retired Lieutenant General Engelbert Rugeje refused to comment.

A number of students participated in the Norwegian resistance movement ; after fire was set in the university auditorium, Reich Commissar Terboven ordered the university closed and the students arrested.

As Political Commissar serving co-equally with Stalin, Voroshilov was responsible for the morale of the 1st Cavalry Army, which was composed chiefly of peasants from southern Russia.

As the people's commissar to the high command of the southern front, Stalin was determined to take the then Polish city of Lwów (now Lviv in Ukraine).

At the time, this had little success.sfn When the OKW decrees regarding the brutal treatment of Soviet prisoners-of-war related to the Commissar Order came to the attention of Canaris in mid-September 1941, he registered another complaint.

Being the Commissar of War and a revolutionary military leader, he saw a need to create a militarized "production atmosphere" by incorporating trade unions directly into the State apparatus.

Bloch, pp. 247–249 Ribbentrop had only expected to see the Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov and was most surprised to be holding talks with Joseph Stalin himself.