If Ukraine ends up with a mixture of ethnic fundamentalism and liberal capitalism, with oligarchs pulling the strings, it will be as European as Russia (or Hungary) is today.
I don't think having [the SNP] pulling the strings in the government of the country when they want to pull the country apart is acceptable to many people".
Walter pulled the strings to formidable effect; no fewer than four of the Germans' half dozen goals came from set pieces, and he coolly scored twice from the penalty spot.
The huge wind and brass sections steal the foreground from the habitually warmer sonority of the strings, and the percussion section dominates over everything.
As soon as we were at the bottom we began spotting the rock art: strings of llamas, giant flightless birds (rheas) and, all alone on a separate crag, a puma.
Noticeably, however, the Lib Dem leader echoed the Tories in saying Labour had "a sort of secret plan" to let the Scottish National party pull the strings after the election.
For Ballard, dissection enables psychological as well as physical forensics: "Sitting beside her, I pared back the skin of her shoulder, dividing the muscles and exposing the nerves of her brachial plexus, the strings that had once moved her arms as she caressed her husband, brushed her hair, cradled her child".
He wore a red bandana around his neck and had strings of leaves tied around his elbows.
And with that must come greater control over the purse strings.
A work for strings alone, the Academy glided crisply through its musically diverse movements, from the bold pizzicato opening of the Adagio to a moving Funeral March.
Also, the strings and reeds for their instruments are supplied.
