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power broker

NOUN
  1. a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control
    a power broker who does you a favor will expect you to return it

How To Use power broker In A Sentence

  • He acted as a pro-American power broker and an alternative voice to the German-French axis within the European Union.
  • In stark contrast to its nature during the foundational period in the 1970s and early 1980s, the Commission in large measure both sets the Community agenda and acts as a power broker in the legislative process.
  • Over the top rhetoric makes sense for the illiterati that the GOP courts to win their votes, but feeling the need to use it for the party power brokers is a disturbing new concept. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 4, 2010
  • It was a dramatic transformation, from society hostess to Democratic Party power broker.
  • Opinion polls put his likely score at 12%, which makes him the ‘third man’ - the candidate who could end up acting as a power broker between the two heavyweights.
  • The onetime Republican power broker faces up to 99 years in prison on felony charges that he orchestrated an illegal plan to funnel campaign cash to state GOP candidates who, after being elected, redrew congressional districts to favor their party. DeLay Corruption Trial Starts
  • And he's going to really fulfill the stereotype of a Washington power broker.
  • But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth.
  • Although he's in semi-retirement, the entrepreneur who conducts business in sweat suits and sneakers, still serves as consigliere to emerging artists as well as industry power brokers.
  • Mr. Amorim has become an unlikely power broker in the bid to wrap up the negotiations, which began in 2001.
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