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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.

    Senior Chinese official meets North Korea's Kim 2010

  • The chief wire-puller in this affair was Maslova, presenting the phenomenon of decadence in its lowest form.

    Resurrection 2003

  • 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.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • 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.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Robinson was a worthy gentleman who happened to come out publicly on the side of a political wire-puller.

    Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans Sherwin Cody

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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