Sentence examples for pull the right strings from inspiring English sources

A lot of roles will carry over from last season, so it's up to the players to execute and for the coaching staff to pull the right strings.

It is long past time for his puppet-masters to pull the right strings and get their rogue operative back in line with their true mission of radical jidahi terrorism.

Garcia Artola worked his contacts to pull the right strings for all-important government approvals.

In contrast, Mazda's automatic is like a slick political operative: never drawing attention, yet in charge and pulling the right strings.

Cohn says he went straight to the clerk in charge of assigning judges to criminal cases, pulled the right strings, and Judge Kaufman was in.

He is Italy's wealthiest man, with a sprawling empire built over a span of decades in which the spoils often went to the one who greased the right palms and pulled the right strings.

"He pulled the right strings of my neurotic character," Johannes said, adding that C. S. "hypnotized" him.

Billionaire Warren Buffett may pull all the right strings in the investment world, yet he's probably not the most technically proficient ukelelist in history, considering Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, David Byrne, Chrissie Hynde, Tony Blair and Elvis Presley have all picked up the miniature four-string instrument in the past.

It begins powerfully, pulling all the right strings, and its ending has an undeniable force.

He practices the art of emotional manipulation, eliciting responses in an audience by pulling just the right strings.

The German maestro has been pulling all the right strings this season, and shows no signs of slowing down his stratospheric assist rate.