Sentence examples for puppet ruler from inspiring English sources
noun
A leader or ruler chosen by another ruler to head a government, usually under the other ruler's order
The lord on Stela 31 may have been a puppet ruler manipulated by tough merchant-warriors.
The Germans, who have appointed their own puppet ruler, are fleeing to Berlin.
But when the latter took Toledo in 1085, he installed al-Qādir as puppet ruler in Valencia with mercenary support.
Regaining full control of his country from the Americans looms large for Mr. Karzai, who has chafed at being called a puppet ruler by his opponents.
A petulant overgrown kid, Christian serves as puppet ruler of a kingdom still mired in the Dark Ages and controlled by the church and the aristocracy.
A puppet ruler was installed, but when he failed to pan out a border crisis was manufactured and the Ming armies entered Vietnam.
Revolutions can overthrow the puppet rulers.
From the 1950s, India imposed puppet rulers in Kashmir, because local leaders did not always toe the line.
Fars quoted Mr. Larijani as saying Iran's enemies "aim to weaken the revolutionary people and promote the spirit of their puppet rulers".
Here, in the sculptured reliefs, are the cities bombarded, the hostages taken, the aggressive displays of military power, the puppet rulers installed, the brutality of militaristic regimes.
After the Nawab Siraj Ud Daulah (the last independent ruler of Bengal) was defeated by the British forces of Sir Robert Clive in the Battle of Plassey in 1757, the Nawabs became puppet rulers, being dependent on the British.
