| Even some of his closest confidants feel snubbed by him, and now mention Pat Robertson's name only with a humph. |
| I think this president has long looked to his key confidants, his closest friends, to key jobs. |
| It might be the effect of temporarily working somewhere different and missing various friends and confidants. |
| He appointed three close confidants to handle the state apparatus, the cabinet and the presidential household. |
| I was hardly aware of opening my locker and being surrounded by my pack of close confidants. |
| Without their traditional confidants, the executive officers, the ships' captains began turning to the Shock Trooper commanders, turning them into de facto execs. |
