31.  He did, however, say he was concerned that legislative leaders and party bosses might be able to control convention delegates and prevent any significant changes.

32.  He expressed hopes that a new Constitution would also replace the system in which party bosses manage the selection of congressional candidates and then control their votes.

33.  He said the single-punch system made it much easier for party bosses to punish people who did not tow the line.

34.  He was alluding sardonically to former party bosses like President Boris Yeltsin and politicians and tycoons who converted to democracy just in time to catch the wave of history.

35.  He was an old-fashioned party boss in the Urals who rode the tide of history and washed up on the other shore as a populist democrat.

36.  In fact, if anything, his attempts at economic reform have hurt his relationships with party bosses, Pei said.

37.  In Paris, furious party bosses branded the alliance between their local officials and the National Front a pact with the devil and expelled the three rebels.

38.  In the end, Roosevelt compromised by asking Platt to approve one man from a list of four candidates that he submitted to the party boss.

39.  In Stavropol, where he was once an all-powerful party boss, the local administration snubbed him.

40.  In truth, party bosses are no longer the players they once were.