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.

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.