And was Mr Brown, if not pulling the strings of the rebellion, acquiescent in it?
But with French full-back Patrice Evra marauding down the left, and Scholes pulling the strings, United were dominant.
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The Arsenal 18-year-old was making his full debut, on his fourth cap, and was soon pulling the strings for Wales from midfield.
But whatever drove them to allegedly set off two pressure-cooker bombs, their uncle is certain Dzhokhar was not the one pulling the strings.
Investors were not reacting to Bolivia, where Crystallex has no operations, but to the man ultimately pulling the strings in increasingly anticapitalistic Latin America.
But he and his Rovers team-mates quickly became overrun in midfield with Cesc Fabregas, Hleb and Gilberto pulling the strings as Arsenal took control.
But Obama and Romney tiptoed carefully to avoid saying anything that might arouse the wrath of the NRA. Talk about hidden puppeteers pulling the strings.
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After a sluggish start, Kilmarnock found their passing rhythm, with Mehdi Taouil and Alexei Eremenko pulling the strings in midfield, and Inverness were picked off on the counter-attack time-after-time.
Thereafter, only Portsmouth looked like scoring and, with substitute Nwankwo Kanu pulling the strings and Glen Johnson bombing forward down the right, only poor finishing kept Sunderland in the game.
One visiting foreign minister has reported that Mr Thein Sein told him last year that it was ages since he had spoken to General Than Shwe (who was presumed still to be pulling the strings).
No monopolist pulling the strings.
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Brown, who was left out of the England 'elite squad' announced earlier this week, was pulling the strings for the visitors, but they missed a number of clear opportunities before Luke Dorn's pass saw Melling slide over with five minutes remaining to give Quins hope.
But it is this type of situation that brings the best out of the Scotland side who will play a much wider game now that Paterson is back pulling the strings at number 10 and a pair of wings who can expect plenty of balls in their hands.
The prosecutors - and those faceless bureaucrats pulling the strings - managed to drag not only Weissman's and Rosen's names through the mud for five years, they managed to cast a pall of criminality and treason on the whole pro-Israel community and the hawks in the Pentagon that tended to agree with it on matters of national security policy.
Eric Kim , who made his reputation at Samsung by taking the Korean giant from a cheap copycat to a Sony competitor and is now pulling the marketing strings at Intel, studied the success of Centrino, the now ubiquitous wireless chips that were marketed heavily starting in 2003.
Eric Kim , who made his reputation at Samsung by taking the Korean giant from a cheap copycat to a Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) competitor and is now pulling the marketing strings at Intel, studied the success of Centrino, the now ubiquitous wireless chips that were marketed heavily starting in 2003.
Hook added the extras and Leicester, after imposing their early authority, were beginning to lose the plot, with the Wales number 10 pulling the creative strings.
But even if Mr Marcinkiewicz continues as prime minister thereafter, few doubt that the party boss will be pulling his strings from the shadows.
And he has the support of Mr Kohl who, despite his disgrace, is still busy pulling strings behind the scenes.
Behind it all, the Tories say, lurks the brooding presence of Gordon Brown, the chancellor, who was pulling Mr Byers's strings all the while.
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This is not because some puppet-master is pulling strings to fudge the data (a straw man rebuttal if there ever was one).
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Even when the cult members get some free play of their own, in the shape of an orgy, what stays with you is the narrowed eyes of Patrick, as he watches from the foot of the stairs, pulling invisible strings.
Avoiding the public courts this time, the companies instead are pulling strings in Washington.
With all the strings Nintendo is pulling lately, a major Kingdom Hearts release sometime in 2013 would make perfect sense.
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