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pull the strings

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See: command, predominate


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And if DONE - and the Mayor's Office by extension - continue to pull the strings of the neighborhood councils, that's exactly what they will become.
For this reason, he spends a lot more ink writing about the corporate elites who pull the strings of both major-party Presidential campaigns, as well as profiling Americans who are working at the grassroots level to cut some of those strings.
In contrast to the high-profile entertainment and real estate players, few Angelenos are aware of the people who pull the strings at the ports, the merchant banks, the shipping lines and freight forwarders.
 
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