camarilla
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One result: today, the old, meddling palace camarilla which made and unmade Premiers in backstairs intrigues is gone.
From Time Magazine Archive
He assembled a little camarilla of army officers and aristocrats and last winter began making secret trips to Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
When President von Hindenburg dropped BrÜning, who had been his protege, the German military camarilla which had maneuvered BrÜning out suggested von Papen to the ancient President, who made him his new protege.
From Time Magazine Archive
In either case the sovereignty of Ireland relapses into the hands of the permanent officials, that camarilla of Olympians.
From The Open Secret of Ireland by T. M. (Thomas Michael) Kettle
It is the author's theory that it is the inner camarilla, working for a speedy restoration of the monarchy, that is responsible for the certainly uncharacteristic reticence of Amerongen.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. by Various
Eco was fond of the Italian term dietrologia, which translates, not very happily, into “behindology” and presumes that secret cliques, camarillas and consortia are everywhere manipulating political scandals.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2016
A puppet in the hands of factions, living from her earliest childhood in an atmosphere of intrigue and falsehood,—the usual atmosphere of Spanish courts and camarillas, how was she to escape the contagion?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
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