What's the difference between communist and princeling?
Communist
Definition:
(n.) An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.
(n.) A supporter of the commune of Paris.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(3) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(4) Far from securing the regime change they were seeking, the creditors now find that Syriza is being supported by all Greek political parties apart from the communists and the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.
(5) A president out of his depth Demetris Christofias is the only communist leader of a European state.
(6) Though Charter 08 mostly called for the Communist party to uphold commitments made in its own constitution it was a coherent and forthright challenge to the party’s rule, calling for peaceful democratic reform.
(7) Social workers were branded as communists and detained till they confessed, often after coercive treatment.
(8) The Associated Press reported that people who answered calls at government and Communist party offices in Chengdu and at the J-20's developer, the Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Group, had refused to comment.
(9) The Communist party and the liberal Yabloko party complained on Sunday of extensive election violations aimed at boosting United Russia's vote count, including party observers being hindered in their work.
(10) Almost two thirds of the electorate (62%) – the combined votes of the Socialists, Left Bloc and Communists – voted against rightwing austerity policies, Costa has pointed out.
(11) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
(12) He later claimed to have warned early on about the rise of the Communist party (PKI), which had won considerable support in the 1955 general elections.
(13) Unsurprisingly, Romney is polling ahead of his rival among Cuban Americans in Miami, where exiles have traditionally supported successive Republican candidates for their hardline stance against the communist regime of Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl.
(14) On 28 November, the Czechoslovak communist regime surrendered to the people.
(15) In 1948 the Palestinian communists paid a heavy price for their support of the partition plan.
(16) • Moldova's president offered a $10m (£6.4m) bribe to a political rival in a desperate bid to keep his defeated communist government in power , according to a secret US diplomatic cable.
(17) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.
(18) MI5 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal Read more Ennals’ son, Sir Paul Ennals, told the Guardian: “It was hardly surprising that the secret services establishment found them all [there were three Ennals brothers, Martin, David, and John] of interest throughout their lives – their careers focused upon defending the rights of minority groups, setting up organisations to combat injustice, founding the Anti-Apartheid Movement and speaking out for what they believed.” He added: “I don’t think such ideas and activities were extreme after the war, and they shouldn’t be now.” MI5 justified its targeting of individuals and organisations, including the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the National Council for Civil Liberties, and CND, on the grounds either that some individual members were members of the Communist party, or that the party was suspected of trying to infiltrate them.
(19) In the 1990s he was almost incapable of not writing a masterpiece – The Human Stain, The Plot Against America, I Married a Communist.
(20) It was at this time that Milosevic forged a close friendship with Stambolic, scion of an elite communist family.
Princeling
Definition:
(n.) A petty prince; a young prince.
Example Sentences:
(1) The wealthiest people in the world – especially the oil-rich princelings of the Middle East – want to live in the capital as it is secure, large enough to permit anonymity, culturally diverse, and conveniently situated for global business.
(2) Zhang Dejiang Bo's replacement is another "princeling", whose father was a general.
(3) Some think the red culture drive makes the rise of "princelings" such as Bo – the children of revolutionary leaders – look less like inherited opportunity and more like the continuation of a glorious tradition.
(4) In advance of Merkel's visit, the British media stressed the plethora of Anglo-German anniversaries coming up this year: 100 years since the start of the first world war, 200 years since the British and Prussians united to defeat Napoleon, and 300 years since a German princeling became King George I.
(5) So his opponents are quick to dub him a Labour princeling, a "quangocrat" who has been too quick to exploit the looming reorganisation of five local NHS hospitals.
(6) Chinese media is not real media, it’s just part of the propaganda apparatus – and its goal is to push this cult of personality.” Xi is a princeling, as the powerful offspring of China’s revolutionary founders are known, but on Wednesday he became a king.
(7) We know that he has enjoyed the support of the "Shanghai faction", which used to run China and is well-connected with fellow princelings and younger generals in the People's Liberation Army.
(8) Even the Labour party is now parachuting its grandees’ exclusively-educated princelings into its safe seats.
(9) Now at Christmas, it demands the kind of baubles you would expect of an Arab princeling or a banana republic.
(10) An investigation by the US authorities into hiring practices in Asia, similar to the one disclosed by HSBC over the hiring of individuals with links to government officials, known as “princelings” .
(11) Indeed, Riyadh's unelected princelings strongly objected to Mubarak's treatment, viewing it as a dangerous precedent, and now appear doubly determined to prevent Saleh being disposed of in the same manner.
(12) Xi, the "princeling" son of Communist party veteran Xi Zhongxun , has a reputation as a clean politician.
(13) I ask her what she has been most proud of during the infancy of her editorship, and she cites the investigative reporting that has been done on global issues such as the rise of "princeling" families in China , Apple's labour practices and the textile business of Bangladesh .
(14) Vice-premier Zhang Dejiang, who, like Bo is a "princeling" – the son of a key party figure – will replace Bo and keep his current portfolio.
(15) And like many of his peers, he is a "princeling" – someone who has experienced both privilege and prejudice as the child of a powerful Communist party figure.
(16) One member of the publishing industry, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals, said: “The people behind Sage Communications have long been hated by the princelings, absolutely hated, because their books are so sensationalistic.
(17) Observers were at the time perplexed by Jiang's lavish praise for the princeling who had displaced him.
(18) Although a "princeling" son of a communist veteran, he was a risk-taker in a profoundly cautious system.
(19) Next year marks three centuries since the Hanoverian succession, the moment in 1714 when the crown of England, Scotland and Wales passed to a minor German princeling, George elector of Hanover.
(20) But political commentator Li Datong suggests this "double background" has proved genuinely formative for princelings such as Xi and might even lead them to bolder policy-making.