| The AFL-CIO is planning an effort modeled on its powerful get-out-the-vote political machine. |
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| We are not mechanical pieces of a political machine, individuals in an anonymous society. |
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| They are alone with the rollercoaster of emotion even though they are still part of the workings of political machine. |
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| They have an eye for the main chance like no political machine in the history of the world. |
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| The party was a political machine that required constant financial lubrication. |
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| He was a key player in a very big political machine and he was managing a slush fund. |
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| But it was still an unorganized effort, while Limbaugh has a powerful bully pulpit, he does not have a political machine. |
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| Dylan McDermott plays the hatchet man dispatched to make Marty into a political machine. |
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| Politically the city was dominated by the Republican Party, which had developed a strong political machine. |
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| Mr. Ahmadinejad was elected twice using Ayatollah Khamenei's political machine. |
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| I am encouraging the government and its political machine to consider conferring with the other parties prior to tabling bills. |
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| I merely wish to say that, in the 75 Quebec ridings, the Bloc Québécois has a tough political machine, as our opponents are well aware. |
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| The fact is, the government gives inflated contracts to Liberal-friendly firms and in doing so secures its Quebec political machine. |
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| But he hasn't received the same marketing treatment as Martin Luther King or Malcolm X, or the political machine of South Africa for Mandela. |
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| The political machine of L. Gbagbo is trying to crush all opposition to his regime. |
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| He successfully reframed the issue as being not about petty internal rules, but instead the little man standing up against the big political machine. |
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| They are, in effect, a political machine that no politician can ignore. |
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| Stripping away the old saws about remorseless efficiency, Frayn indicates that the German political machine is as prone to cockup and compromise as anyone else's – which is probably the price of democracy. |
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| They have totalitarian domination by a political machine. |
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| But StreetsPAC does not much resemble a hardened political machine. |
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| Local politics became dominated by Tammany Hall, a political machine supported by Irish and German immigrants. |
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| Instead, by reinforcing the central government international actors are supporting the political machine of President Karzai, which is presently engaged in obstructing the reform process. |
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| Born of the corrupt Chicago political machine. |
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| Obviously somebody somewhere deemed appropriate to bypass the bureaucratic system and infiltrate the government political machine to gain some privileges, this in contempt of the official principles of equity. |
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