wire pulling

Why shouldnt a book get noticed on its own merits without any appeal to cliquism and influential wire-pulling on the press?

This can be brought about by a little preliminary wire-pulling.

The kind of wife that will help such a man is the one that will help him socially and diplomatically—by wire-pulling, if you like.

After all his wire-pulling to get into the First Group, and his slaving to make a farm on this alien planet, dead in bed!

England to be worked by the wire-pulling of a few under-bred, half-educated priests!