| 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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| 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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| Un jeune homme, a la mine grise, descend du vehicule et se dirige vers la malle arriere. |
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| Direct your criticism where everybody knows it should go eminence grise, Mike Ashley. |
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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 Harry Hopkins was no mere manipulator of people and ideas, no eminence grise masterminding the actions of figureheads. |
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| Grasmoor takes its name from the Old Norse element grise, meaning wild boar. |
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| Several gold zones have been identified on the properties, the two most significant being the Zone Grise and the Lepine Zone. |
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| With strong pressure gradients on the weather map, reported winds at Grise Fiord will be all over the place peaking at times to very strong. |
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| And for the first time, I met someone that didn't like it at all, who would even spit it out-Pauline, an Inuk from Grise Fjord. |
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| When they found the body of young Grise, it showed signs of trauma and she had a caesarian. |
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| For instance, narwhal in Pond Inlet are observed to behave much differently to hunting than those in Grise Fiord. |
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| In the Baffin Region, the lowest cost for the perishable portion of the basket was in Grise Fiord, the most remote community, which has only a co-op store. |
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| Belzebub II departed Newfoundland following the coast of Greenland to Qaanaaq before tracking the sea ice to Grise Fiord, Canada's most northern community. |
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| The word was for a long time normally rendered fiord, a spelling preserved in place names such as Grise Fiord, but now generally current only in New Zealand English. |
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| But Eminence Grise didn't agree with Mr Pickles being labelled a fat cat. |
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