| It is a competition where the elite use personal connections to jockey their cronies into key positions and thus win power and influence. |
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| Since all appointments were made by the government of the day, it helped to have political or personal connections with those in power. |
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| They are establishing professional learning habits and personal connections with other camp professionals that will serve them well the rest of their lives. |
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| Pathiranage used some of his personal connections to get a month's supply of dry milk and medicine to the family. |
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| Direct personal connections between Canadians and Europeans are fundamental to keeping the relationship relevant and vital. |
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| Networking: Through networking, hotels and their potential partners can exchange information and establish personal connections. |
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| Like an alchemist, he turned personal connections into money and money into influence. |
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| Through personal connections, he knew Isherwood's long-time partner, who held the book's rights and encouraged Scearce to take on the adaptation. |
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| And although fellow academicians might assume that the value of research speaks for itself, making a memorable case often depends on timing and personal connections. |
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| The visitor experience is defined, in fact, as the sum of personal connections that a visitor makes with a protected heritage place. |
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| Many of them have very personal connections to the affected area. |
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| In this theme, students gain awareness of their personal connections to the rest of the world and examine the international role of the capital as the place where Canada connects with the world. |
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| Students also identify the reasons people recycle goods and waste products, and make personal connections to reducing, reusing, and recycling at home, in the community, and at school. |
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| Those individuals with personal connections to ethnocultural communities because of their own ethnicity, their church work and their volunteer or community work felt that they had influenced the work of their agencies. |
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| It may be formalized in some organizations through agreements with other companies, while in others it may depend on the personal connections of individuals in charge. |
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| Identifies significant business opportunities and key contacts in the First Nation and government and finds ethical ways to make personal connections. |
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| Sir Andrew's personal connections went to the top of most powerful family in Scottish society. |
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| The megachurch he attends is too big for making personal connections, so he also fellowships weekly in one of the church's small groups. |
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| There is political interference, things are going slowly, they are just not working and, at the moment, organised cross-border crime is being fought by policemen with personal connections. |
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| Having both lived in and formed social and personal connections with the community's children and parents, these teachers were equipped with the habitus that could support culturally responsive pedagogy. |
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| This common attraction, amongst others, probably stemmed from the fact that a good number of the staff and Board Members had personal connections to the Canadian Forces. |
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| There are personal connections to Beckett, too. |
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| There were also infinite personal connections. |
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| More importantly, they have given Canadians the reassurance that former senior officials, politicians and their staff cannot use their personal connections to obtain special favours from the government once they leave office. |
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| They have also given Canadians the reassurance that senior government decision-makers do not use their personal connections to get special favours from the government once they leave office. |
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| Moreover, it noted that most of the contracts in the emergency systems business were awarded through open tender and not because of personal connections with suppliers. |
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| Lions also learn about other club and district projects, participate in the parade and elections, attend seminars and make personal connections with international leaders and representatives from headquarters. |
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| Was no one, save those with personal connections, moved to paint them, photograph them, write about them, monumentalise them or interpret their meaning? |
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