Sentence examples for a puppet for from inspiring English sources

I think he's a puppet for special-interest groups.

In effect, he was merely a puppet for Somoza to control the country.

Susan Tolchin, chief adviser to Mr. Spano, labeled Mr. Astorino "a puppet for Entergy" and "the Indian Point candidate".

The essay also compares Mr. Li to a notorious traitor who became a puppet for Japanese invaders earlier this century.

The mayor vehemently opposed Mr. Levy's appointment, saying that he would be a puppet for the teachers' union.

It may reduce its civilian leaders' vulnerability to being accused of acting as a puppet for America and limit, if only on the margins, the military's domestic power.

The insurgents have derided Mr. Karzai as a puppet for years, and they still have not said they would meet with his negotiators.

Maduro is seen by many Venezuelans as a puppet for the Castro brothers in Cuba, who are given around 80,000 barrels of oil a day for free.

The composer had long served as a caricature of Soviet nationalism; Volkov and his acolytes had now made him a puppet for the other side.

Without a deep understanding in the history and complexity of the topic, Democrats and consumer advocates say, she could become a puppet for influential financial groups.

"My thinking is she has become a puppet for the west who are using her for their own objectives," said Fahad Shah, a business owner in Rawalpindi.