Sentence examples for it a pawn from inspiring English sources

SCIRI sided with Iran during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, and many Iraqis still consider it a pawn of Tehran.

Its strategic position, commanding the mouth of the great Mississippi-Missouri river system, which drains the rich interior of North America, made it a pawn in the struggles of Europeans for the control of North America.

Nor should we barter the sanctions we imposed in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, making it a pawn in some cynical swap with Putin.

Dominguez's novelty was to first fix Black's pawns with 17 g4 and then play 18 h4, even though it cost him a pawn.

And it is international in the sense that it is a pawn of ABC, which makes it one more in the pantheon of events broadcast to dozens of countries around the world.

If you've ever tried to sell jewelry to anyone else, it's a pawn shop environment; it's a little gross.

12...Ncb4 (Sometimes it is a good idea to reflect into the past. The game Korchnoi-Spassky, Candidates match 1968, comes to mind. Spassky had a knight on b4, Korchnoi attacked it with a pawn (a3) and black "protected" it with a cool move a7-a5.

For more than four years, the world has alternated between ignoring Syria, wringing its hands in despair and treating it as a pawn in cynical power play.

But the Greek state has a poor reputation among citizens, who see it as a pawn of special interests.

Mr. Telvi, who was in a car accident in September, credited the Fire Department with responding first to his crash and said it was a pawn in a budget game.

Instead of holding his queen knight in readiness for the usual maneuver Ne2 and Nf4, Kasparov played 11 Ne4 and after 11... c5, he played 12 c3!? Quite unusual, because it puts a pawn on the same color as White's only bishop and thus limits its effectiveness.