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Local power brokers may equally be able to hold the government to ransom.
To sustain these strikes, workers had to persuade and cajole, manipulate and coerce to their side, the sundry patrons and power brokers of the neighbourhood.
No parliamentary candidate could hope to secure election without striking favourable bargains with a host of power brokers operating at every level in his constituency.
Neo-patrimonial rule is furthermore facilitated by a number of influential power brokers who act mainly behind the scenes.
These managers became power brokers, courted by vanilla merchants and timber companies.
But as soon as the party elders thought their penance had been paid, they were quick to dump each of these caretakers, and replace them with real power brokers.
She described opting out as breaking the shackles of the power brokers.
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