Meanings of pliant tool in English

What a pliant tool of your Southern slaveholders!

The dwarf Nemu was her pliant tool.

But the Governor had too much manliness to become the mere pliant tool they wished to make him.

He was the father-in-law of Pompey, by whom he was made a pliant tool against the great conqueror.

A more pliant tool of the pro-slavery party from the North was given the preference in the person of Buchanan.

The acquaintance speedily drifted into intimacy, and the girl became the pliant tool of Birchill, who acquired an almost magnetic influence over her.

It was supposed he was so entirely unacquainted with state-craft, that he would be a pliant tool-anautomaton, to dance to their wire-pulling

The governor of the province of Ulrasborg resigned, while several other provinces were already governed by pliant tools of General Bobrikoff.

Opposition parties that did exist were at best seen as a joke and at worst pliant tools of the Mubarak administration.