wire pulling
Example Sentences
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The force on the picture is straight down to the floor, but the force on the toothpick is both the picture wire pulling down and the bottom of the hole in the wall pushing up.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
They took the last fence, Shaun Goilin still behind, Sir Lindsay starting for the wire, pulling up even with Melleray's Belle.
From Time Magazine Archive
How he became the great political machinist of his day, and how, by his zeal, ability, and method, he elevated "caucusing" or party "wire pulling" into a recognised system—I had almost said a political science.
From A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" by Anderton, Thomas
If the unknown student had nerve and determination he could win his way for all of the wire pulling of the friends of some rival who was not so capable.
From Frank Merriwell at Yale by Standish, Burt L.
Let this nomination be thus presented, without any wire pulling or depreciation of others and as a conviction upon established facts, and I believe Governor Hayes can be and ought to be nominated.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John
