commissarial

I cut into the tactical net, using my commissarial override code.

So I looked my most commissarial.

I straightened my uniform cap, and tried to look as commissarial as I could manage.

This kind of complication was unwelcome on top of the demands of his commissarial duties.

Gaunt was an intense, quiet young man, and a commissarial post had been his dearest ambition since his earliest days in the Schola Progenium.

Aquilae were common, of course, and several of the loudest and most militant sported scarlet sashes, like the one which marked my own commissarial authority.

I aimed my second-best intimidating commissarial glare at Kasteen for a fraction of a second, before snapping it round to nail the junior officer sitting at her right.

He became the Stadthauptmann (head of the administration) of Daugavpils in 1918 and commissarial Police President of Stettin in 1919.

I inhaled it gratefully, as it displaced the no less familiar odour of Gunner Jurgen, my aide almost since the outset of my commissarial career nearly twenty years before.

But then I've never expected to be popular; ever since I got selected for commissarial training I've known I could expect very little from the troopers around me apart from resentment and suspicion.

Armed with my commissarial authority, which let him requisition practically anything short of a battleship without argument, he'd developed quite a talent for acquiring anything I considered necessary for my comfort or convenience over the years.

After education at the Schola Progenium and Guard basic training, a cadet received the rest of his training in the field, and the promotion to full commissarial level was a judgement matter for his commanding officer.

The answer, of course, is that I didn't have a choice - the assessors at the Schola Progenium decided I was commissarial material, and that was that.1 1 A decision which, on the face of it, seems remarkably perverse, given Cain's manifest character flaws.

One of the most frequently recurring themes has been the "commissarial dictatorship", which suspends democracy in order to preserve the possibility of its continued existence - a notion defined by Jean Bodin at the dawn of the modern state and later theorised by Carl Schmitt.

Having spent most of my service with Valhallan regiments, I'd long become inured to their habit of air conditioning their quarters to temperatures which left the breath smoking, and tended to wear my commissarial greatcoat at all times, but they were still adjusting to the local conditions here with some difficulty.

This had been helped along by a little judicious myth-making among the senior officers, who had let it be known that Parjita was hellbent on mass executions and that I had spent the past few weeks exerting every iota of my commissarial authority in urging clemency for the vast majority, finally succeeding against almost impossible odds.