These days a few well-placed phone calls can elect a president.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doubts About The Candidates] Reference

Your few well-placed nouns and adjectives are part of the problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Debating Hillary] Reference

"This is a blessing in disguise," says one well-placed Israeli source.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ecopolitics: Why Japan Risks Its Place In the World to Hunt Whales] Reference

We will try to find out next week from a well-placed Hong Kong source.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Banks Leading New Gold Rush] Reference

Perhaps a well-placed phone call to a well-positioned man in an office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt from Pompeii ii] Reference

But there's nothing like a well-placed skull to set off a feeding frenzy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding Chandra] Reference

Two well-placed sources told NEWSWEEK that the envelope contained a knife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Body of Evidence] Reference

I'm also secretly addicted to Benchley's skill with the well-placed obscenity.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Jaws': Celebrating Sand, Sex And A Really Big Fish] Reference

"Retaliation is inevitable, and a big one," says the well-placed Israeli source.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Hizbullah Leader] Reference

Laskin also leaves us with a well-placed fear of severe cold's implacable danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Best] Reference

But does the Sinaloans 'reputation for well-placed bribes help keep them out of jail?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico Seems To Favor Sinaloa Cartel In Drug War] Reference

At the end of the week, he hit a bedroom window, then darted to a well-placed tree limb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I Broke One of My 'Cardinal' Rules] Reference

A few well-placed bombs are sufficient to induce the pursuers to cease their activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

What else is needed, and where else could a well-placed investment yield royal-flush returns?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping Up with the Gateses] Reference

"The administration people are scared to death of Tenet," one very well-placed source told me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Politics: Waiting For The Heads to Roll] Reference

"Defense is no longer the last of the four modernizations," says a well-placed mainland source.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pointing To Trouble] Reference

William F. Weld's "Kerry 'Will Have It Both Ways'" made for a well-placed companion piece, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL] Reference

A discreet phone call here, a quiet word there, a well-placed contribution to the right candidate.    From Wordnik.com.  [What It's Like When The Power Is Gone] Reference

"The smartest people in the government are studying these issues," a well-placed Beijing resident told me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does the Future Belong to China?] Reference

"The Soviets walked back even further" from agreements reached in December, a well-placed U.S. source said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soviets: Stopping Start] Reference

But researching the topic has well-placed me to also offer advice on a topsy-turvy version of that question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cordelia Fine: A Career in Gender? Think Twice] Reference

The reason: "to get the Iraqis in the open and moving," according to one well-placed military analyst in Ankara.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turkish Dilemma] Reference

According to "" well-placed sources, '' the network said, the president may eventually admit that he kissed Monica.    From Wordnik.com.  [Race To The Bottom] Reference

It has a staff of only 11, yet it wields outsize influence through prodigious fund-raising and well-placed connections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saving the Everglades] Reference

Add a few well-placed bombs, say some computer experts, and it might be possible to bring down the Internet for months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bringing Down The Internet] Reference

Either way, one well-placed shell would greatly ratchet up the stakes in a conflict that so far has had low casualties.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Diplomatic Race Against Disaster] Reference

Foremost among those trying to save him were the well-placed journalists and politicians who loved to go on Imus's show.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Will We Learn?] Reference

There's nothing we could miss that a few lines of expositional dialogue or a well-placed flashback can't catch us up on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Note to ‘Damages’: Stop Now] Reference

Illinois journalist Jerry Landay thought his well-placed government source was writing to congratulate him on a recent story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bitten By Love] Reference

"Everyone in the Fujian party apparatus knew about the smuggling," said a Beijing businessman with well-placed party connections.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Princelings Problem] Reference

With the help of a well-placed turncoat (Stephen Rea), he was able to locate and assassinate his pivotal British enemies inside Ireland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slouching Toward Mayhem] Reference

Still, you expect familiarity from a spinoff, and "Joey" manages to be funny and sweet with only a few well-placed "Friends" references.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference

Yet the Islamists have survived and learned to effectively play the spoiler, sabotaging Abbas's peace talks with a few well-placed attacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘We’ll Have to Talk’] Reference