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The committee also accused the United States of being a "wire-puller and chieftain of the incident," according to state media.
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The chief wire-puller in this affair was Maslova, presenting the phenomenon of decadence in its lowest form.
Resurrection 2003
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Yet in truth the mildness was so far genuine enough; for Henry Home came to the camp of revolution along a very different road and from very different origins from those of Jake, the common tub-thumper, and Elias, the cosmopolitan wire-puller.
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Yet in truth the mildness was so far genuine enough; for Henry Home came to the camp of revolution along a very different road and from very different origins from those of Jake, the common tub-thumper, and Elias, the cosmopolitan wire-puller.
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Robinson was a worthy gentleman who happened to come out publicly on the side of a political wire-puller.
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O hero amongst men, as a wooden doll is made to move its limbs by the wire-puller, so are creatures made to work by the Lord of all.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Yet, though ostensibly free, these local bodies are practically in the power of the political wire-puller, or _cacique_.
Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin
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Thurlow Weed, prominent "wire-puller," presented as a preferable puppet to Montgomery Blair his choice, Henry Winter Davis, upon which the President said:
The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams
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The atmosphere is too political and I imagine Mrs. Green to be a bit of a wire-puller, though I believe a nice woman.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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We were constantly aware of him, no doubt, as the rival figure to the Master of Balliol, as the arch wire-puller and ecclesiastical intriguer in University affairs, leading the Church forces with a more than Roman astuteness.
Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918
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