camarilla

They were political Play-Doh, to be massaged and molded as Bush’s camarilla saw fit.

The Democrats then warned of a catastrophe, but the Kremlin camarilla came around.

Monte-Leone, whom the abuses of the French government and the camarilla of the Tuilleries made most indignant, gave vent to his opinions and complained bitterly of the acts of the ministry.

The figurative signification of the word camarilla, which, in its literal sense, means a little chamber, is almost too well known, even out of Spain, for an explanation of it to be necessary.

On July 29, 1914, the well-informed German newspaper, Vorwaerts, declared: "The camarilla of war-lords is working with absolutely unscrupulous means to carry out their fearful designs to precipitate a world war."