puppet ruler

A puppet ruler over the lands of my daughter and grandson?

They wanted him to be a puppet ruler and so took steps to curtail his power.

He reigned - as but a puppet ruler - from 904 to 907.

Clearly, Triannic was keeping his puppet rulers under close supervision, indeed.

Hes convinced himself that were going to make him our puppet ruler among his own species.

The Mughal dynasty was reduced to puppet rulers by 1757.

But the puppet ruler may also be controlled by internal forces, such as non-elected officials.

They subsequently set up a puppet ruler and forced the country to hand over control of its foreign affairs to Britain.

Even when he was most troubled, Peter always knew one place where he could feel like a man, instead of a puppet ruler.

After this a puppet ruler was placed on the Elamite throne.

He was deposed at the age of 25 because he grew "too old" to be a puppet ruler.

He was a puppet ruler controlled by the Hōjō clan regents.

The more he saw of Vincent, the less Mikhail could envision him being even a puppet ruler.

Because the restoration of imperial ideas was the pretext that Japan used to install the puppet rulers.

It seems that there had been a rebellion against the puppet ruler in Northumbria, so they returned to restore power.

For many years Ivan was treated like a puppet ruler of Muscovy.

He took a huge booty including 20,000 slaves, and appointed a puppet ruler in Bagirmi.

Uncooperative kings were replaced with puppet rulers loyal to the Mexica.

During the next decades Tarascan puppet rulers were installed by the Spanish government.

Such outside power can be exercised by a foreign government, in which case the puppet ruler's domain is called a puppet state.

They appointed puppet rulers, and Zanzibar became a 'protectorate', not a colony.

He was considered a "puppet ruler", first under the Marathas and later under the British.

The Dutch installed a puppet ruler, Nazarudin, in the lower region, which included the capital city.

He returned to Afghanistan leaving a Mughal puppet ruler in nominal control.