paymaster

Example Sentences

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The Cuellars were charged earlier this month with accepting bribes, money laundering and violating foreign lobbying laws by trying to influence the government on behalf of their foreign paymasters.

From New York Times • May 13, 2024

“If the Russian state no longer pays Wagner, the second most plausible paymasters are the Belarusian authorities,” British officials said.

From Washington Times • Aug. 13, 2023

Is the sport ultimately run on the say of its biggest paymasters?

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2022

The beginning of the telescope’s journey did not go unnoticed by the space agency’s paymasters in Congress, who have stuck with the project for decades now.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021

Composers adapted quickly to the new conditions, new paymasters and new tastes of the second half of the eighteenth century.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall