1.   Monsieur Valentin was a formidable political operator.

2.   ...one of the shrewdest political operators in the Arab World.

3.   He remains a formidable political operator and is usually at his best on the hustings.

4.   An even less believable character is Okano, a political operator who spouts Heidegger and Holderlin.

5.   A well-connected and aggressive political operator, he is one of the leaders sent by Beijing to rein in errant financial practices.

6.   After the massacre Zedillo dismissed the Chiapas governor and hired a new interior minister, his top political operator, and a new peace negotiator.

7.   Certainly he is too much of a political operator to try and rock the Republican boat by pushing too far or too fast in any direction.

8.   For all his primary primacy, Tillotson is no political operator.

9.   General Prabowo is highly capable, sophisticated, ruthless and a far more practiced political operator than General Wiranto.

10.   Goldstein has been criticized for being more of a political operator than an educator with vision.