11.   Mobutu was once considered the consummate politician, something of a Central African Machiavelli.

12.   One imagines that the boy raised in the hardscrabble Drywood community and who as a man became a consummate politician probably never even gave that incongruity a second thought.

13.   Roos, the consummate politician and savvy insider, cuts to the chase.

14.   Selig is a consummate backroom politician.

15.   She is the consummate populist politician.

16.   The most consummate politician of his age delivered peace and prosperity during his eight years in office.

17.   The Israeli choice comes down to consummate politician Benjamin Netanyahu against decorated general Ehud Barak.

18.   This is a consummate politician who knows exactly what strings, including heartstrings, he must pull to stay in office.

19.   At heart, Casey was a consummate politician, albeit a stubborn one at times.

20.   Kanemaru, who helped put four prime ministers in office, was regarded in Japan as the consummate backroom politician.