He had foreseen no need to pull strings once the engagement began.

I'll call MI-6 and have the FBI pull strings with Scotland Yard.

He lacked family, especially kinfolk who could pull strings in business or politics.

There are faceless puppetmasters who pull strings and manipulate the purity of justice.

You're asking me to pull strings I don't have the juice to pull.

Or they'd pull strings higher up and get you fired, or framed for something.

He was offering to pull strings and keep me at home to work with convalescents.

After some anxious thought he decided that it was his duty to try to pull strings.

Not only did he pull strings for Ali.

Alexa tried not to pull strings too often, but she knew how to get exactly what she wanted.

I can pull strings, I could pull in a few favors, have them do the job without pain.

Daddy tried to pull strings, but heaven, ma'am' -God lowered his voice -'is another word for nepotism.

She was afraid to see the thug again, but Jeremy would pull strings to be with her when that day came.

They have agents all over the country, who pull strings in wolfram and the ruby mines, and have a finger in every mortal thing.

She did endow a library, and she's interested in so many things of the kind that she could doubtless pull strings in all directions.

In one of their coded letters Paul had urged her to visit Ludwig, who, he believed, might be in a position to pull strings.