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Definition of Puppet leader
1. Noun. A leader or ruler who is chosen by a despot to head a government.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puppet Leader
Literary usage of Puppet leader
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Storm Clouds Clear Over China: The Memoir of Ch'en Li-fu, 1900-1993 by Li-Fu Ch'en, Hsu-hsin Chang, Ramon Hawley Myers (1994)
"... he fled, first to Vietnam and then to Japan to become the paramount puppet
leader of the Japanese-occupied areas. Wang's puppet regime, however, ..."
2. The Dictionary of English History by Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling (1910)
"having been the puppet leader of one of the earlier revolts against Henry VII.
In this i' volt he figured as Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, ..."
3. Religious Intolerance in Europe Today: Hearing Before the Commission on edited by Alfonse M. D'Amato (1999)
"The rehabilitation of Father Joseph Tiso, the Nazi puppet leader responsible for
the deportation of Slovak Jewry, is symptomatic' of nationalist ..."
4. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1904)
"As for the puppet leader of the uprising, the tool of an ill-concealed hand, he
was, so we learned, in Moscow—ostensibly in consultation with the force that ..."
5. Adventure Guide China by Simon Foster (2008)
"... Puyi, as its puppet leader. Anti-Japanese sentiment ran high and in 1936 Chiang
Kaishek was seized by his own officers (which became known as the Xi'an ..."
6. Firepower in Limited War by Robert H. Scales, Jr. (1990)
"In a prophetic statement, Babrak Kamal, then puppet leader of Afghanistan, once
boasted that his forces had the "firepower to melt the Afghan mountains. ..."
7. Wake Up the Lord Is Returning by Alf Droy (2002)
"Hussein and replace him with a puppet leader. Ironically out of all of those
leaders only Saddam remained in power into the 21st century. ..."
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