"boss" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The power of ward bosses was eliminated.
- For this public service, the ward boss paid Mr. Obrycki several dollars a head.
- During his tenure in office he was known as a ward boss more focused on providing constituent services than sponsoring legislation.
- Shiite religious leaders, pushing to assert themselves in any new Iraqi authority, were running their mosques like ward bosses.
- Each congressman commands a political patronage machine that the old ward bosses would have envied.
- At the same time, she has the readiness of an old-fashioned ward boss.
- God is a formidable ward boss, and people whose politics flow from their faith make unusually dedicated grunts.
- They were in charge, but whether a kurda was a king, a representative, a ward boss, or a judge, there was simply no way to know.
- He is also in many ways the quintessential ward boss.
- Twenty years ago a ward boss on this city's West Side laid down the first rule of Chicago politics.
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