wire-puller
Example Sentences
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Most active wire-puller against Lewis was foxy Daniel J. Tobin, head of the Federation's biggest union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mathers was simply the best organiser and wire-puller I ever met in the course of my life.
From Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by Reid, Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson)
It's only that I so dislike Grace's ineradicable idea that I am a wire-puller.
From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Wharton, Edith
You will best serve him by being perfectly frank with me, and if it will induce you to be so, let me say that the wire-puller in the business is Mr. Travers Nugent.
From A Traitor's Wooing by Hill, Headon
He must not be a mere general, a mere lawyer, a mere wire-puller.
From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen
