A Texan gentleman with private means, he has been the eminence grise behind four relatively liberal Texas governors. |
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As an eminence grise of the Republic, he continued to participate in public life, above party quarrels. |
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But Foran was more than an eminence grise exerting control behind the scenes. |
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But Harry Hopkins was no mere manipulator of people and ideas, no eminence grise masterminding the actions of figureheads. |
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Direct your criticism where everybody knows it should go eminence grise, Mike Ashley. |
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Nominally a military dictatorship, the government of General Umar Hasan al-Bashir has since 1989 come dramatically under the influence of its radical Islamist eminence grise, Hasan al-Turabi. |
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Americans have written about him as the eminence grise behind attacks on American troops in Iraq. |
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But Eminence Grise didn't agree with Mr Pickles being labelled a fat cat. |
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