wire pulling

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "wire pulling":
      Byzantine intrigues, artifice, backscratching,
      backstairs influence, behind-the-scenes influence, cabal,
      collusion, complicity, complot, confederacy, connections,
      connivance, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, counterplot,
      covin, deals, deep-laid plot, devices, engineering, expedients,
      finagling, finesse, frame-up, game, games, influence,
      influence peddling, intrigue, intrigues, little game, lobbying,
      lobbyism, logrolling, machination, maneuvering, maneuvers,
      manipulation, plot, plotting, ploys, political influence,
      public opinion, rigging, ropes, scheme, schemery, schemes,
      scheming, social pressure, special-interest pressure, stratagem,
      strings, tactical maneuvers, tactics, trick, underplot,
      web of intrigue, wires