Sentence examples for a patsy for from inspiring English sources

This week Salman Rushdie described him as a "patsy" for the Chinese government.

Today, purveyors of conventional wisdom remember Mr. Dinkins as weak on crime and a patsy for divisive ideologues.

To be more effective in letting contracts, or more of a patsy for private companies like G4S?

But Bernstein's insider experience will also prove his weakness if he is perceived as a patsy for Premier League representatives on the FA main board.

But Mr. Zedillo was neither corrupted by office, nor a patsy for the corrupt officials in which the PRI still abounds.

Dadayev's reported confession has raised fears that he will serve as a patsy for more influential people that could have ordered the hit on Nemtsov.

The story is a cross between "The Ugly Duckling" and "Cinderella," with a patsy prince for a hero.

Any such solution would leave the president looking like a patsy (inconceivable for someone whose key slogan has been "Make America Great Again").

Even now he enjoys this same status at many clubs, a recurrent patsy for deficiencies further up the hierarchy, whether of competence or basic means.

In saving the throne, the Seagraves argue, MacArthur deviously undermined real democratic reforms in Japan and became a "perfect patsy" for the men who had ruled Japan before the war and would continue to do so secretly after the war.

MacArthur did flirt with the presidency, even if his towering self-regard made him an unlikely patsy for anybody.