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Significados de ward-heeler em inglês

A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.

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Examples for "hack"
Examples for "hack"
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Kim Zetter explained everything we know so far aboutUkraine's power plant hack.
Wired
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That system was not involved in the data hack, the company said.
Reuters
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However, Maduro insists Venezuela's system is entirely trustworthy and impossible to hack.
Reuters
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He said the hack demonstrated Australia's need to increase its digital security.
Radio NZ
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We also have a way of learning while having fun: hack days.
The Guardian
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He does not fit the blue-collar stereotype of a Chicago machine politician.
The Guardian
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Still, Pellegrini played the good soldier, knowing that in Baltimore a machine politician's word is gold.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
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One such endeavor entailed throwing their considerable political clout behind a Democratic machine politician's bid for mayor of Chicago.
The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
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The consummate machine politician.
The Guardian
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He's just the ordinary machine politician, with no more party feeling than-than-" Ismiled-"thananyother man behind the scenes."
The Plum Tree
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With no archaeological training, he was little more than a political hack.
The last testament
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Parker asked for federal assistance from U.S. Attorney General Harry Daugherty, a political hack.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
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The chairman might be a political hack, but he was not without his skills.
Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
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He was a political hack, and then he became governor.
News.com.au
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Donald Trump is a dragon slayer and Joe Biden is the oldest political hack on the planet.
News.com.au
Uso de ward-heeler em inglês
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A ward-heeler cadging votes for a Milwaukee alderman never wheedled more gingerly.
The Ivory Trail
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It is bad to elevate the mind of the average ward-heeler?
The Fourth "R"
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And Blount knew the disappearance was real, because the ward-heeler's own henchmen were searching for him.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
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A very good sample was the notorious Yankee Sullivan, an ex-prize-fighter, ward-heeler, ballot-box stuffer, and shoulder-striker.
The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
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If you tried to vote some ward-heeler would challenge you and you'd like as not be hauled off to the lock-up.
Bunker Bean
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A choice haul was made of the lesser lights of the ward-heelers and chief politicians.
The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
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We were swaggering about like ward-heelers, when on the afternoon of the 5th the unexpected again happened.
The Outlet
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He cries aloud in the market-place, and rogues and ward-heelers, and evil-minded politicians, group themselves around him.
The Warriors
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"They've got my number," said the ward-heeler, in a convict whisper which was little more than a facial contortion.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
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"Under the guise of studying me and my machine," he said, "you've been using it to train speakers, and to educate ward-heelers.
The Fourth "R"