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puppet rulers
n. (plural form of puppet ruler English)
Usage examples of "puppet rulers".
Some of the men the Germans had set up as puppet rulers of the Warsaw ghetto had fawned on their Nazi masters.
Status Threes vest authority in puppet rulers dominated by a powerful priestly caste.
And chances are they would have been set up as puppet rulers, just as we have set up their opposite numbers in the Diet.
Clearly, Triannic was keeping his puppet rulers under close supervision, indeed.