But anyway-Paison was regional boss for the Barrenta gang.

British agents had fanned out across the country, bribing candidates, and the regional bosses who controlled them.

With the party's regional bosses taking shots at her, political analysts had speculated that the coalition would splinter.

"It works like this," he said to Grevetz, the regional boss, who was sitting next to him in the rear compartment.

Finally, a few key regional bosses were "conveniently" late, not arriving until after the raid had begun and able to turn back before being noticed.

"Is she a regional boss?"

Gyorgy Aczel, the liberal-minded ideology chief, spotted the talented regional boss and took him under his wings.

Most of Russia's powerful governors and regional bosses have declared themselves for Mr. Putin.

Russia's regional bosses have already sensed the shift in power away from the Kremlin and seem to think nothing of defying the President.

As presidents, cabinet ministers, regional bosses, even as former rebels with regional allegiances, they sought solutions designed to keep the nation together.