| The well-heeled and well-connected often flew to Puerto Rico or Sweden and checked into clinics. |
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| The situation was saved by Gaius Marius, a man born into a family recently admitted to equestrian status but who was politically well-connected. |
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| Police are almost helpless against wellequipped and well-connected traffickers. |
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| He seems to have had a hall pass from federal authorities, which embittered other foreign flight trainers not similarly well-connected. |
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| Gregarious and well-connected, he is a lifelong Washingtonian who knows both the city and its political culture. |
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| This day, which as a child, I called Candlemas, was a religious holiday dedicated to a well-connected infant. |
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| In many cases involving powerful and well-connected suspects, there is perceived interference in the police investigation. |
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| This bundle consisted of a large number of competitive trades and was well-connected with interregional and international markets. |
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| Money often goes to favored or well-connected groups, and controversial but promising research may be ignored. |
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| He remains a powerful and immensely well-connected figure at the centre of the Scottish business world. |
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| Any ambitious, knowledgeable, diplomatic, well-connected woman could presumably do it. |
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| It was not mainly the rich, powerful, or well-connected of Europe who came, but those of a more modest station. |
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| It seems a well-connected L.A. mob figure has targeted her son's business for takeover, but the cops can't seem to get the goods on him. |
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| She broke into a position normally held by retired military officers or well-connected businessmen. |
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| It undermined the well-connected Lady Jane Franklin in her obsessive quest to glorify Sir John as discoverer of the Northwest Passage. |
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| There was no agreement on either question, according to a well-connected former editor of a state media outlet. |
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| The period after the Restoration of 1660 offered many opportunities for royalists well-connected enough to seize them. |
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| We want a dynamic, well-organised, well-connected international movement against imperialist globalisation. |
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| We will continue to be bombarded with embargoed books, movie tie-ins and well-connected authors. |
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| Skeptics say the genial chief executive is just a well-connected corporate diplomat, a schmoozy pol in pinstripes. |
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| All in all, the five constituted a well-connected and thoroughly reactionary group. |
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| In this way, a social inequality arises between the powerful, the rich and the well-connected, and the poor who are not so fortunately circumstanced. |
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| Ferraris inspired a sort of hushed awe and their owners automatically became members of an elite club that only the very wealthy and well-connected could ever hope to enter. |
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| For what it is worth, one well-connected consultant who spoke to me five years ago suggested that 1995 was perhaps the peak date for payments to authors. |
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| They size up their attackers and draw out the appropriate weapon – an earsplitting scream, a filthy look, a well-connected slap. |
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| He remained a lone parent for several years until his marriage to Margot Tennant, a member of a rich and well-connected Scottish family. |
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| Already well-connected in the public health arena, this coalition and its counterparts were credible messengers for disseminating the Foundation's summary. |
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| Combining vision, creativity, technical expertise, political acumen, and collaborative leadership Ms. Copeland has been instrumental in creating a vibrant, well-connected, and nimble Canadian academic library community. |
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| The agency must be located somewhere well-connected in terms of transport and information technology, and the area in question should have a good reputation in the area of food safety. |
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| In the 1950s, Bill also worked for chez Ninon, a couture salon owned by the socially well-connected Nona Park and Sophie Shonnard. |
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| So Bandar enjoyed none of the prestige or the clout that well-connected mothers bring to their sons in the Kingdom. |
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| Married to a well-connected Chinese woman from Dalian, Heywood wore nice suits, had impeccable manners, and spoke Mandarin. |
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| Kaufman is riffing on well-connected dots from Wolfe's reportage, as well as having a little fun with Johnson's reputation for old-school bullying and sulking. |
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| We negotiated a ride with a well-connected local, sardined into the back of his jeep, and he drove us straight past every dusty roadblock with a grin and a wave. |
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| But because these tax cuts have powerful, well-connected constituencies, it has been difficult to slay them. |
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| To say Christopher is a well-connected British gent is to sell him short. |
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| I had no influence, no friends in high places, no well-connected parents. |
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| They had their own interests in this well-connected Lebanese spy. |
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| The room hummed with the excitement of media and well-connected fans. |
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| Both are well-connected schmoozers paid to ply and manipulate our elected officials. |
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| If you are thin enough or famous enough or just plain well-connected, you are waved through by the iPad-toting PR girls gridded across the entrance. |
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| Since he was at least as well-connected as he was well qualified, it took only till the Spring of '42 for him to wangle his way into the boss's chair of the new Geological Survey of Canada. |
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| One resting, despite nervous tummy, on privilege passed down from his his father: Canon Charles Raven, Master of Cambridge's Christ's College and himself a well-connected botanizer. |
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| Cicero, who was consul in 63, was kept fully informed of the growing conspiracy by his network of spies and informers, but he felt unable to act against the still-popular and well-connected Catiline. |
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| For example, Skoda is ostensibly run by locals, yet Mr Kulhanek, a well-connected Czech who nominally heads the company, seems nonplussed by a question about return-on-equity targets and the cost of capital. |
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| Schieffer and Wallace are supremely well-connected journalists. |
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| Family firms employ them by the HBS-load and state-owned ones are no longer just sinecures for the well-connected. Make capitalism popular againDoes all this matter? |
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| Rather than venerating the well-heeled and well-connected, we'd be more interested in championing working people and those who fight to make Britain a better place. |
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| The transformation, virtually overnight, of SOE managers into a new class of politically well-connected freeloaders was viewed by workers with nothing short of outrage. |
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| The bookishly romantic Lydia Languish adores her lover when she thinks he's a poor ensign, and is appalled when he turns out to be a well-connected captain. |
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| He is as well-connected with rock stars as he is with royalty. |
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| Mr. Speaker, Canadians are rightly outraged that well-connected Conservatives are apparently meeting with questionable businessmen and claiming they have the inside track on securing government funding. |
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| Each entrepreneurial failure by a business class immigrant, each refusal of credential recognition against a skilled worker, is amplified through well-connected global networks. |
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| Yes, much like Richard Gere's Gigolo, Car becomes a suspect, gets bullied by the authorities and quickly finds his well-connected friends otherwise engaged. |
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