tentacles

But unhappiness about the coming welfare cuts spreads its tentacles far further.

She added that colonialism "was no longer a matter of my own maligned fate but a system of evil whose tentacles reached into every phase of African life".

In the Kremlin, though they deny any role in these events, I am sure people are happy Russia is seen as so powerful; its tentacles so far-reaching they can even stir up Romanian politics.

Al Fayed “had access to vulnerable young women from that school”, she said, adding that testimony she had heard suggested that Al Fayed’s “tentacles went far and wide”.

Just like how our marine friend can pretend to be a starfish, eventually it will move its tentacles and reveal its true nature.