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At least, such schemes did not save Mr Mukhtar and other well-connected PML(Q) men from defeat.

Well-connected Kikuyu business leaders are trying to persuade Mr Kibaki to give in and form a government of national unity.

She's just a name-dropper . She likes to mention all those big names in her conversations so people think she's really well - connected.

Smuggling, he said, was dangerous if you were not well connected.

Or that Qu and Wu were not especially rich or well connected: Qu's father is a manager at an insurance company, his mother a teacher.

You and I can't buy into these companies; only very select institutions and well-connected individuals can.

Mr. Leung is well-connected with many of the city's biggest business people, and has earlier referred to Mr. Li as his longtime supporter.

Long trusted with most sensitive matters like the Israeli-Palestinian talks, Mr. Suleiman is well connected in both Washington and Tel Aviv.

With no powerful family behind him, he had to take out loans at five times the normal rates of his well-connected competitors.

They point out that the Chevalier had a number of politically well-connected friends in Venice who could have offered a bribe.

You must be very well connected; you seem to know all the right people.

Class defines a set of domain controllers that are well-connected in terms of speed and cost.

But to do that they need to extend their net beyond the children of the well-connected, whom they can find without any trouble.

Very quickly he rose up. One minute he's a spokesman, the next minute he's the minister of information. He's obviously well connected.

RosettaNet has promised these problems will go away when they roll out a re-modeled, well-connected schema.

Curbing state companies means taking on all of the well-connected people who ride on their coat-tails, including parts of the middle class.

Typically, routing groups are used to specify a set of well-connected Exchange servers.

Mr Cai, 55, is UBS's senior local rainmaker and was well-connected within the political and business establishments in Beijing.

AIG is so well connected and well known that we get a wealth of information about what is going on in the world.

With Civic Platform in charge again, aggressive policies towards the well-connected old guard are off the agenda.

Moreover, large farmers are often well-connected and spend more time lobbying for special favours than doing the hard work.

Murdoch runs a huge and very powerful empire, well connected to ultra-right interests around the world.

Well-connected designing of script language execution mechanism improves execution efficiency of script language.

He held a seat at Harvard and worked at the Smithsonian and was extremely well-connected.

Indeed, there is no doubting Sepa's lack of clout when it comes to tackling politically well-connected companies.

Economic liberalisation has a poor reputation, thanks to reforms earlier this decade whose fruits flowed largely to the well-connected.

Sometimes well-connected shell firms take a fat cut and then pass the real work on to subcontractors, with scant regard for standards.

And this could provide an incentive for senior managers to look the other way when well-connected people are recruited.

Look for introverts that, for whatever reason, are in jobs that force them to be well connected.

Only the well-connected get to the front of the queue.

Each segment consists of integrated, well-connected businesses that operate in concert to maximize expo-sure and growth worldwide.

Before the revolution, he remembers, they only bothered to help the well-connected.

But in past purges, the planning commission has struggled to impose its will, thanks to well-connected factory bosses and militant workers.

That would reduce the transfer of wealth from savers to well-connected corporations, which enjoy cheap credit.

But many on the rich list are politically well-connected and retain a residual ideological opposition to "western decadence" .

What's better is to have a handful of "superstars" on a project who are well-connected and in the center of the information flow.

HIS father, a well-connected doctor in the east German town of Halle, had wanted young Georg Friedrich to become a lawyer.

An affluent, well-connected New Yorker with ties to top stock analysts, Denby lost over one million dollars gambling on tech stocks.

The well-connected Mr Daschle will spearhead reform as head of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Perceptions of value are manipulated by very clever, wealthy and well-connected people (not art critics, in other words).

Kashin, after all, was a mainstream, well-connected figure.

The Chinese government stays in power by giving private goods to a smaller number of well-connected people.

You come from that small class of well-connected people in academe who will be able to find a place for you somewhere.

The seizure of farmland by well-connected urban property developers has caused a string of major protests in recent years.

Knowledgeable, well connected and often protected by foreign-ownership rules, they have an advantage over the new entrants.

Well connected to construction machine manufacturers.

We are well-connected with national and international scientists and pharmaceutical industries.

The wealthy and well-connected people on Wall Street, fine citizens and generous donors, usually get their way.

In purely financial terms, a mere handful of well-connected champions can generate a large amount of added revenue.

Antitrust and competition laws are not applied vigorously to well-connected champions.

Corruption or fraud that allowed local officials and the well-connected to pocket large sums of public largess won't be exposed.

NCL, the firm run by the defence minister's well-connected son, had struck pure contracting gold.

Fifty years ago, the financial world was dominated by well-connected blue bloods who drank at lunch and played golf in the afternoons.

It helps a lot to be well-connected, well-educated and well-off to compete for the highest political offices in the US.

The loan-subsidy programme largely benefited well-connected SOEs, and the currency has been kept artificially strong.

But mostly such policies end up subsidising well-connected industries and products.

These pictures exposed the practice of jail staff granting privileges to those well-connected criminals.

Formations that transmit fluids readily, such as sandstones, are described as permeable and tend to have many large, well-connected pores.

In both Europe and America well-connected public-sector unions obstruct progress.

A well-connected Chinese scholar assured me the answer is no.

Well-connected notes help you brainstorm and review your ideas more effectively.

The editor of Mediapart, Edwy Plenel, a former editor of Le Monde and one-time militant Trotskyite, is well-connected on the French left.

There is much research showing that well-connected people are more productive, more emotionally satisfied and have higher self-esteem.

Beautiful Hangzhou girl wanted for bank officer from well-connected family.

It is well connected by public transport while many major attractions are within walking distance.

Many Afghan warlords have transformed themselves into businessmen, and many of them are well connected in the political world.

But the families who sent their children to Xinjian are neither wealthy nor well connected.

Think about how you can leverage your technological, well-connected selves to bring new skills to the marketplace.

a bailout and socialism for the rich, the well-connected and Wall Street.

Banks often lend to the well-connected instead of the creditworthy.

None of us were able to go to Europe, But Jaisalmer was well connected to it. And this is the 16 centimeter area.

A Young photographer who was well connected in the fashion world.

So romantic love and love hatred are probably well connected in the brain.

As a board member at both Citigroup, a big American bank, and Alcoa, an American aluminium firm, he is well connected.

It may be well connected the bait.

For almost twenty years. We're well connected with firms in this field.

They can cut spending in a smart way, and close wasteful tax loopholes for the well-off and well-connected.

Big, state-owned or well-connected companies didn't have problems getting loans.

Casinos are popular, pay a lot of taxes and please well-connected developers.

SPIEGEL: The case of recently arrested artist Ai Weiwei, who is well-connected in Berlin, was seen in Germany as a provocation.

Those who are very well-connected and active networkers tend to have large, responsive audiences.

I tried to get help from every well-connected friend I have. Everything there is the best.

Sometimesdoing a website for one well-known or well-connected local client can lead to several other local jobs.

The arts and crafts were impressive, But how did you manage the real snow? I'm well-connected.

Connections can actually damage your business if a factional fight breaks out and your well-connected partner is on the wrong side.

If you are well connected to social networking, and on the pulse of social networking trends, this is also helpful!

Of course, we have our elites, the well-connected, the inheritors and so forth.

Well connected, 800 years ago, through Europe.

Such positions usually go to the friends and family members of well-connected bankers.

Last year Mr Bouteflika restricted imports, hurting some well-connected businessmen.

Latin American managers, for instance, like to show how well connected they are: some even have a dedicated one for the boss.

Even though I'm so young, I'm pretty well connected, so I have a lot of leads to follow.

Though ballet and modern dance were not well connected at that time, Dai ailian learned both of them.

In Russia, the well connected "siloviki" decide who is leading.

He had spent the late '90s in Hong Kong running Intel's sales and marketing across Asia, and he is very well connected there.

Clever and well connected, Mr Wolfowitz seemed an interesting gamble when he was appointed;

you makin' that call to your guy and I'm sure you're well connected

to be well connected with major dealers in the line of textiles

Check to make sure the anchor bolts at driving part are well fastened and the shaft coupling is well connected

To integrate resources in order to well-connected clients and their families' social support web;

Such ambitions received a blow last year, when the well-connected Jiang, a former government official, brought in CIC, with an

Well-connected informed participants, mostly in UK but also in Dubai, USA