And as a sentimental string-puller, who knows if it won't wind up in that league.

Your knowledge of Cuban history is small ('Puppet and string-puller', February 23rd).

It's corporal, miss,' said the string-puller, touching his forelock. '

One notable addition from the novels is the original character Trent, who often served as a mysterious behind-the-scenes string-puller who aided the main characters.

Some Tories yearned privately for an expert string-puller such as Lord Mandelson who could make something happen.

He was a happy, broad-gauged English string-puller whose steady hand had kept Starfleet on good footing since the beginnings of the long-range exploration program.

A fat cat string-puller is a fat cat string-puller, and anyone in a position of power without controls has the same problems.

"Homo Sovieticus," she concludes, "was a string-puller, an operator, a timeserver, a freeloader, a mouther of slogans and much more.

In turn, Băsescu has criticised Hrebenciuc, labelling him "oligarch", "mafioso" and "string-puller" and contrasting him with himself.

It's a challenging position for a writer, and a threatening one for anyone living through a revolution - even, his carefully curated dreams suggest, for a string-puller such as Sisi.

By then, underground propaganda was depicting Antonescu as a new and less qualified version of the infamous Elena Lupescu, who had been Carol II's mistress and string-puller.

Last year, Sean Timmons, artistic director and chief string-puller behind the annual Appel Farm Arts & Music Festival in Elmer in Salem County, lucked out.

Where once he was the Machiavellian string-puller, the aging Leno is shown here more a desperate prisoner of forces beyond his control, praying to extend his moment on the stage just a little bit longer.

This implies that the Emperor is merely a victim of manipulation by Imperial bureaucrats rather than the true string-puller, which is at odds with Palpatine's depiction in later films in the series.

Falk, best known as the string-puller behind the Jordan marketing machine, is also the agent for the foul-prone Alonzo Mourning, who managed to stay on the court today for 32 minutes, 22 points and 12 rebounds.

Despite these comments, Mr. Kanemaru prefers to run things as a kuromaku, or string-puller behind the scenes, and as a master of pork barrel politics who has brought huge sums to the governing Liberal Democratic Party.

In that film he played a scientist, but in "The Triangle" Mr. Neill has graduated to the role of string-puller: he plays a reclusive shipping tycoon who recruits a quirky team to investigate why his vessels keep vanishing.

These are heady days for Ohio, and for your scribe, who grew up in Akron and learned his first political lessons there at the knee of Ray C. Bliss, a storied political string-puller who went on to head the Republican National Committee.

As the country he ran for 22 years heads for a cliffhanger election, Mr Mahathir is still suspected by many as a powerful string-puller behind the scenes as the dominant United Malays National Organisation (Umno) and its coalition partners fight to convince voters they deserve another term in office.

It's got to be some nefarious string-puller somewhere doing this evil deed for some evil purpose.