eminence grise

Puissance occupante et éminence grise du pouvoir en place à Beyrouth, elle fait plus ou moins la pluie et le beau temps dans la large portion du territoire libanais qu'elle contrôle.
Syria is the main power broker and occupying force in Lebanon, exercising an overwhelming degree of control in the significant portions of Lebanese territory that it occupies.
On ne sait même pas s'il existe une éminence grise.
We don't even know if there's really someone pulling the strings.
Cependant, il ne faut pas le comprendre comme une sorte de coaching ou comme si je tirerais les ficelles dans l’arrière-plan et j’agirais comme éminence grise.
But this must not be seen as a kind of coaching or that I pull the strings in the background and act as the gray eminence.
Car, que le gouvernement de Kaboul ait été ou non informé des antécédents d’Ashdown, aux yeux des Afghans, celui-ci incarnait une version « postmoderne » de l’ancien diplomate britannique et éminence grise de Tony Blair en matière de politique étrangère Robert Cooper.
What Ashdown epitomized to the Afghans, whether or not their government was aware of the antecedents, was the 'post-modern' position of former British diplomat and Cardinal Richelieu to Tony Blair's Louis XVIII in matters of foreign affairs, Robert Cooper.
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