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US
/ˈpɑɫətˌbjʊɹoʊ/
]
[ UK /pˌɒlɪtbjˈʊɹəʊ/ ]
[ UK /pˌɒlɪtbjˈʊɹəʊ/ ]
NOUN
- the chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party
How To Use politburo In A Sentence
- Stick us in a virgin paradise, and we create great honeycombed bureaucracies, vast bramble-fields of rules and regulations, ornate politburos filled with policymaking politicos, and, above all, tangled webs of power.
- He is in perpetual dispute with Lytvyn’s local advisers, whom he calls the Politburo. FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
- Prodded by the Stasi chief, the Politburo persuaded the Czech government to close its borders to East Germans.
- On November 9, the politburo met to discuss the growing democratic revolutions in other ‘socialist camp’ countries as well as events in Bulgaria itself.
- The Politburo and Central Committee tried to remove him six months ago after his plan for a new constitution was rejected by voters.
- He joined the foreign policy unit in the Politburo in 1971, and became Secretary of State in the Foreign Office in 1985.
- On his return to Moscow, he became the father of glasnost, a member of the Politburo and one of the most efficient demolishers of Bolshevism from within.
- The application of the wife of a politburo member to study at a research institute would never have been easy to reject.
- The guessing game over the commandante's health and influence? diplomats in Havana admit ignorance over the hermetic regime's inner workings? recalled the inexact science of Kremlinology, which tracked Politburo dynamics during Red Square parades. Cuba left guessing on Revolution Day as Fidel Castro misses big parade
- Ivashko adjourned the meeting, and the politburo went into emergency session, emerging to announce its unanimous backing for Gorbachev.