A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
1 He does not fit the blue-collar stereotype of a Chicago machine politician .
2 Still, Pellegrini played the good soldier, knowing that in Baltimore a machine politician 's word is gold.
3 One such endeavor entailed throwing their considerable political clout behind a Democratic machine politician 's bid for mayor of Chicago.
4 The consummate machine politician .
5 He's just the ordinary machine politician , with no more party feeling than-than-" Ismiled-"thananyother man behind the scenes."
6 The conventional image portrays Stalin as nothing more than a bloody tyrant, a machine politician , a heartless bureaucrat and an ideological fanatic.
7 To begin with, they were experienced machine politicians ; they had control of well-organized political rings.
8 They had the plain people, the great mass whom the machine politicians had failed to judge correctly in the August Conspiracy.
9 There are lively debates beyond Westminster because: -Voters are fascinated by politics but are turned off by speak - your - weight machine politicians .
10 A detester of all machine politicians , he was a statesman worthy to be called the William Pitt of the United States.
11 The simple application of this rule to the practical affairs of to-day, would diminish the number of our machine politicians by about four fifths.
12 One of these arguments, a favorite with machine politicians , takes the form of an appeal to "party loyalty" in filling minor offices.
13 Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper -one of them is still most likely to win -are the mainstream, professional machine politicians in the race.
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