pull strings in a sentence

Examples

1. This has been replaced by the more mundane struggle of committees : who can pull strings and reshape the engineering intervention.
2. His girlfriend's father pulls strings to get him enlisted, arguably in the hope that he will not return and marry his daughter.
3. In 1917, the Chandler Company of Indianapolis, created the " Chandler gyroscope ", a toy gyroscope with a pull string and pedestal.
4. Instead, the mouth is surrounded by cilia that pull strings of mucus containing food particles towards a series of grooves around the mouth.
5. Elliot Handler is credited with developing the first talking doll, Chatty Cathy, using a pull string talking mechanism which revolutionized the toy industry.
6. However, newspapers in conspiracy-prone Romania have run countless articles suggesting he was embroiled in business deals and continued to pull strings in politics.
7. Even as he sought asylum in Panama, Montesinos continued to pull strings in Peru and even spoke regularly on the telephone with Fujimori.
8. He is an orthodox, fire-and-brimstone Catholic with the power to pull strings, and his diatribe to Roisin ignites the film's most scorching confrontation.
9. As an attorney for Brandon Air Lines, Michael pulls strings to get his brother reinstated as a pilot after he flunks a drug test.
10. But Thomas McMahon, a trade association executive from San Francisco who said he traveled 150, 000 miles a year, knew how to pull strings.