"Of course we want to see the election of a Labour government in 2020, but what I want is to get away from this pulling of the strings of the Labour party".
He'll still be pulling plenty of strings, feeding his vision to his carefully built team, and weighing in on the company's compass headings.
Industrials think Mediobanca is still a useful puller of strings.
Frank W. Ballard, a master puller of strings who helped bring the study of puppetry into the university curriculum and in so doing trained a generation of lively, manipulative disciples, died on June 4 in Storrs, Conn.
Robert S. Strauss, the former Democratic Party chairman who is in Mr. Barbour's league as a party stalwart and puller of strings, said he once thought of running for the Senate from Texas but concluded he would be clobbered.
Anthony Head surfaced as a suave puller of strings; John Goodman played a sinister American tycoon who smacked a girl black and blue around his trashed palatial suite (if indeed it was him…), then hired a train for a grand picnic.
The car was loud with clapping and the pull of strings and the sharp snap of heels and the singer's howl.
"But a group of octogenarian billionaires on the front pages of newspapers, pulling the strings of candidates, was simply something we hadn't seen before".
If he succeeds, Mook won't be able to keep his name from being mentioned alongside men like Jim Messina, David Axelrod, and Karl Rove in other words, his years of discreetly pulling the strings of Democratic politics are coming to an end.
For example, in order to describe reaching overhead we used the example of reaching to a high shelve instead of giving the original example of pulling the string of a lamp (which is not a common local feature).
