Just as in Iraq, Washington is at least paymaster and sometimes sheriff as well.
EU's biggest paymaster and most populous country hence the lip-service that must be paid to its tongue.
Every director of the Fund must learn to live with its overbearing paymaster-in-chief.
Germany, traditionally the powerhouse and paymaster of the EU, is mired in its own post-unification problems, both economic and social.
Geoffrey Robinson, the Treasury's paymaster-general, has now turned to a group of businessmen to advise him how best to proceed.
The former paymaster general is planning to give his side of the home loan scandal in his memoirs The Unconventional Minister.
BBC: News | UK Politics | Downing Street denies gagging Robinson
She is not prepared for Germany to become the paymaster of Europe.
It's the principal paymaster of such extremist forces as Hamas and Hezbollah.
Yet Germany, the funds' main paymaster, has blocked previous efforts to allow this and there is no indication of any concessions soon.
Could Alamoudi be telling the feds insights about his former paymaster, Qaddafi, that could be helpful in removing the latter from power?
Xafinity Paymaster, the firm named in the Commons on Monday as having made overpayments, said in a statement it was "not at fault".
Fully 20 years after reunification, Germany is asserting its interests as the union's chief paymaster, and no longer feels the need to please.
The debate is particularly intense in Germany, the eurozone's main paymaster, where allies of Angela Merkel have openly called for Greece to go.
Cuba faces the return of the frequent power cuts that were common in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, its hitherto paymaster.
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He was tipped for rapid promotion, but lost out on the role of paymaster general when Lord Irvine was allegedly unwilling to let him go.
The prime minister has insisted former paymaster general Geoffrey Robinson is "not a pariah" and insisted no action was being taken to block his memoirs.
BBC: News | UK Politics | Downing Street denies gagging Robinson
In a statement, it said: "A number of public sector pension scheme administrators, including Xafinity Paymaster, were not notified of the correct GMP data, " the company said.
To would-be Arab democrats, of course, an America that claims to champion democracy while remaining the protector and paymaster of authoritarian regimes runs the risk of looking hypocritical.
Germany - Europe's largest economy - has been the paymaster in the eurozone crisis, a move unpopular with many German voters and some conservative MPs in Mrs Merkel's coalition.
Although governments nod to the corporation's editorial independence, they can be tempted to use their muscle as paymaster to influence coverage of contentious matters especially, in recent years, Northern Ireland.
The Germans want to see a fiscal and economic union in place first, with all the safeguards that it will not become the paymaster for the rest of Europe.
The game pitted two countries that have been at the center of the European debt crisis, a showdown between the euro zone's most cash-strapped nation against its Teutonic task- and paymaster.
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Then, probably the most damaging, was the revelation that Mr Mandelson had been given a preferential loan by millionaire paymaster general Geoffrey Robinson to allow him to buy an upmarket home he couldn't otherwise afford.
Now it seems that the government in the guise of the paymaster-general, Geoffrey Robinson, a former businessman no less is planning to extend this ban and to persuade the biggest fossil-fuel generators to keep buying British coal.
Although he was expecting this result, he said his campaign had failed and "the train could now leave the station" heading for a transfer union, where Germany would act as the paymaster for the weaker economies.
John Whiting, tax specialist at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, has been following closely the representations made to the minister responsible, the Paymaster General, Dawn Primarolo, which include a joint attack from the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Law Society.
As negotiations on changing the terms of the Greek rescue limp on, there remains a widespread presumption that Germany - the eurozone's paymaster - would always have too much to lose from the collapse of the currency union to allow it to collapse.
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