wirepulling

He has climbed to his present eminence by sheer ability, not by means of wirepulling.

A good deal of what went on - rumors of wirepulling and international involvements - must and will remain in the dark.

Even simple copper wire requires ore, a refining furnace, and wirepulling equipment... all of which added up to a hefty wad of cash.

By birth and lineage an anti-Whig, and, as a man, he must have despised the wirepulling Scotch Whigs of his time as 'but a pack o' traitor louns'"."

perpetual insults that every decent labour man has endured through standing up for his country in the hour of her crisis from men who have foisted themselves on the Labour movement by wirepulling tactics.

Originally Liu had had a far smaller set of rooms in the same building, and Michelis, after he had got used to the idea, had had them both installed in the present apartment with only a minimum of wirepulling.

But the Primus was out of favor with the Supreme Praetor ... and the Praetor was wirepulling the Senate and the Praetorate ... and there were rumors of Federation trouble on the wind.