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Second, there isn't any reason to believe that Obama is using Goldberg as a stalking horse against Netanyahu.
He used a third-party spoiler candidate in the race, Don Sprouse, as an anti-Semitic stalking horse.
Forced Abortions and other South Carolina Dirty Tricks | Ben Jacobs | January 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTGoing into the vote, he was denounced as a stalking horse for the presidential aspirations of Barbour, the Mississippi governor.
Reince Priebus Ousts Michael Steele as RNC Chairman | Samuel P. Jacobs, Shushannah Walshe | January 14, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
Back in 2006, Patrick was seen as a stalking horse for Obama.
Butts had been introduced as a stalking-horse, but there was no doubt about Si's admiration of his "handiness."
The Magnetic North | Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)It was the stalking horse behind which Offenbach hunted the follies of the day and bagged the absurdities of the hour.
Kentucky in American Letters, v. 1 of 2 | John Wilson TownsendFor the same reason the passions are the main theme of poets and the stalking horse of actors.
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, A Dialogue, Etc. | Arthur Schopenhauer"For my dough they've given up trying to find her and are using you for a stalking horse," he added with fiendish accuracy.
Modus Vivendi | Gordon Randall GarrettBetter never profess than make profession a stalking horse to sin, deceit, the devil, and hell.'
Bunyan | James Anthony Froude
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