Sentence examples for mere puppet from inspiring English sources

Wily Mr Prodi, with Mr Veltroni beside him, turned out to be no mere puppet.

But Owen became a mere puppet manipulated by Dr. Todd & Amy.

But then we make her the mere puppet of her own life.

The man, from his own evidence to the Hutton inquiry, is a mere puppet.

Iraq, like Jordan and the rest of the Arab world, would be authoritarian - but it would be neither a naked military dictatorship nor a mere puppet state.

Its last emperor had become a mere puppet, and finally (220) he ceded the throne to Cao Pi, the son of his generalissimo and protector, Cao Cao.

The modern tribal governments were mere puppets and collaborators.

Are they mere puppets for a "pop" Svengali?

Piterman's men are mere puppets on a string.

Throughout the 1980s Noriega manipulated elections, ruling Panama through presidents who were mostly mere puppets.

The people of Iran cannot be seen as either passive ­followers of the regime or as mere puppets manipulated by western powers.