Many of Caldwell's books centered on the idea that a small cabal of rich, powerful men secretly control the world.

No one outside its leadership really knows what is going on within the I.R.A., whose operations are obviously controlled by a small and highly secret cabal.

A small cabal began poring over the cables for evidence of ideological editing or censorship.

A small cabal would control all the minds of men and women for ever more.

Instead, they tend to attribute criticism to a small cabal of enemies.

All now dedicated to delivering 'shareholder value' which seems to basically mean massive wages and bonuses for a small cabal of robber barons.

Exhausted and nervous, councillors disappear into small cabals.

He was part of a small cabal that argued this view internally.

Except it wasn't the United States, exactly; it was a small cabal of programmers.

Same in the Conservative party...policy made by a small cabal....