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Commissariat meaning
A supply of food. | The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops. | A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.
Example sentences (16)
The Council of People's Commissars appointed itself the supreme head of the Red Army, delegating command and administration of the army to the Commissariat for Military Affairs and the Special All-Russian College within this commissariat.
In the end, the Supreme Court finally stepped in to end this unconstitutional aberration, which was more like the old Soviet commissariat than our ideals of equality under the law.
Mathroo came in second behind Commissariat and ahead of Pune’s Diana Pundole, who ended up third in the championship.
Although Stalin described the NKVD (People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs) regiments that moved forward with the tactical fighting units as a “gendarmerie” (military police force), they rarely intervened in the lawlessness.
The person traveling with the sick passenger tested negative, and both were taken off the boat, the commissariat said.
Nearly 150 000 litres of fuel would be used to oil the fleet of buses being mobilised by the Zanu PF commissariat department to ferry party supporters to Harare.
According to a list released by the revolutionary party's Commissariat Department, Mashonaland West Province has the highest number of constituencies (7) ordered to re-conduct the elections.
From the communication I got from the commissariat, indications are that there won't be any re-runs in the province," he said.
Then the Commissariat of the Holy Land was created.
In October 1960, a large amount of radioactive waste was going to be discarded in the Mediterranean Sea by the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA).
It is also known as narkamauka, after the word narkamat, a Belarusian abbreviation for People's Commissariat (ministry).
Like Glasscott, Thomas clashed with Burges, but survived until the Convict Depot was closed in 1857, and he was transferred to a more senior position with the Commissariat in Perth.
Meanwhile, Captain Karl Wild, learning of the putsch from marchers, mobilized his command to guard Kahr's government building, the Commissariat, with orders to shoot.
Mitterrand left the Commissariat in January 1943, when his boss Maurice Pinot, another vichysto-résistant, was replaced by the collaborator André Masson, but he remained in charge of the centres d'entraides.
The control of the commission's activity was provided by the People's Commissariat for Justice (Narkomjust, at that time headed by Isidor Steinberg) and Internal Affairs (NKVD, at that time headed by Hryhoriy Petrovsky ).
The war commissariat of Ryazan succeeded in gathering in some fifteen thousand of such deserters.