1. 10 London has been seen as Washington's stalking horse.

2. 11 He was too innocent to be a stalking horse.

3. 6 The possibility of another stalking horse challenge this autumn cannot be ruled out.

4. I think the development is a stalking horse for exploitation of the surrounding countryside.

5. 1 I think the development is a stalking horse for exploitation of the surrounding countryside.

6. It never bodes good when she looks like that; she's using the girl as a stalking horse.

7. 30 And so standards, in engineering, were not seen as the stalking-horse for some elitist social agenda.

8. Cirque entered a "stalking horse" bid from its largest backers, including a mix of multinational private equity firms from the United States, China and Canada for $420 million