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  • Not everyone approved of public silence or noticed the private string-pulling.

    Harold Holzer: Why was Abraham Lincoln so silent following his election? Harold Holzer 2011

  • Michel Jr admits that "string-pulling" saw him spend his military service cooking at the Elysée Palace for President Mitterrand, while other, less-connected young men were not so lucky.

    How the Roux family educated the British palate 2011

  • Troutman had been working on it ever since, for it had taken months of string-pulling.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • The other big holdover from last season is Renee Walker, played by Annie Wersching, a sympathetic FBI agent who was increasingly drawn to the Baueresqe dark side, so much so that she ended by nearly torturing to death the season's hidden Big Bad, a string-pulling conservative behind a Blackwater-like security outfit.

    William Bradley: 24 Nation 2010

  • Popularity is now decided on a by-hit basis, not through backstage string-pulling, while ratings, comments and channels open up a whole new democratic dimension of user engagement.

    Claire Gordon: Internet Killed the Video Star 2010

  • Troutman had been working on it ever since, for it had taken months of string-pulling.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • The other big holdover from last season is Renee Walker, played by Annie Wersching, a sympathetic FBI agent who was increasingly drawn to the Baueresqe dark side, so much so that she ended by nearly torturing to death the season's hidden Big Bad, a string-pulling conservative behind a Blackwater-like security outfit.

    William Bradley: 24 Nation 2010

  • Many believed, rather naively, that their authoritarian rulers were little more than puppets of string-pulling U. S imperialists.

    We Can't Save South Korea 2010

  • More times than I can tell, I've gotten an eerie sense of invisible orchestration, of behind-the-scenes cosmic string-pulling, of something that actively rooting for the planet's home team.

    Marc Ian Barasch: Practicing 'Green Compassion': How Do You Stack Up? 2010

  • The other big holdover from last season is Renee Walker, played by Annie Wersching, a sympathetic FBI agent who was increasingly drawn to the Baueresqe dark side, so much so that she ended by nearly torturing to death the season's hidden Big Bad, a string-pulling conservative behind a Blackwater-like security outfit.

    24 Nation 2010

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