camarilla

• The only part he can be said to have taken in public life as yet is having called the imperial attention to the Maximilian Harden allegations regarding Count Eulenburg and a court “camarilla,” referred to later, and having, while sitting in a gallery of the Reichstag, demonstrated by decidedly marked gestures his disagreement with the Government's Morocco policy. —  William of Germany
• The very fact that Gotabaya Rajapakse, an unelected bureaucrat, is able to make his outrageous threats against diplomats and journalists, unchallenged by the media and opposition parties, testifies to the enormous power that has been concentrated in the presidential camarilla. —  RINF Alternative News Media: Daily Breaking News
• His action was supported by Honduras, Nicaragua, Ecuador and most importantly, the Southern Colossus, Brazil, that told the camarilla in the White House not to cross the red line of the Brazilian area of influence. —  Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo
• Some like British politicians 'friend Derepaska, or Potanin or Prokhorov ended up in Putin's court camarilla [clique]. —  Socialist Party
• The Rajapakse regime already functions as a military-political camarilla contemptuous of parliament, the courts and the law.

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