A well-connected Edinburgh family.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

His bootstraps were pulled up by his well-connected family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Murphy Brown Policy] Reference

His wife, Heather Podesta, is a well-connected lobbyist in her own right.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Lobbyists are Not Created Equal] Reference

Over the years, Lenzner has hired some fairly well-connected investigators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Race To The Bottom] Reference

A well-connected friend phoned an attorney at the law firm that represents the bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corporate Battlements] Reference

Contracts are awarded not to the most competent but the most well-connected, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Wasata and Bad Roads] Reference

Confidential data can be easily obtained through a corrupt or well-connected bureaucrat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Those Prying Eyes] Reference

A bankruptcy filing "will never, never happen," a well-connected cardinal told NEWSWEEK.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cardinal Offense] Reference

But now, BP has a well-connected PR firm in Washington, the Brunswick Group, on the job.    From Wordnik.com.  [How crisis PR hasn't kept up with the turbulent times] Reference

The well-connected former Saudi official often sends up trial balloons in the Western press.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arab Alternative] Reference

The other candidates have been there for more than a year, with well-connected locals in charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can You Really Buy A Caucus?] Reference

Though wealthy and well-connected, Guelfi is not the kind of friend that Samaranch can use right now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five-Ring Scandal] Reference

His partner in the venture was Vladimir Zelezny, a shrewd and politically well-connected Czech businessman.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tv Tussle Titillates In Prague] Reference

Apart from corrupt officials and well-connected businessmen, few Palestinians have gained from the Oslo deal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back At The Table] Reference

It didn't hurt when he soon divorced his first wife and married into a wealthy, well-connected Arizona family.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Defiant Governor Goes To War In The Desert] Reference

It all boils down to the unjust enrichment of politically well-connected contractors at staggering taxpayer expense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call And Clarification: Accountability And B] Reference

The remaining 80 percent of the country's total drug income goes to the traffickers and their well-connected friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Harvest Of Treachery] Reference

But in her time she was a catch because of her vivaciousness, her wit, her intelligence and her well-connected family.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Hellcat or Helpmate': The Mary Todd Lincoln Saga] Reference

And the message he conveys to them, says one well-connected retired senior officer, is clear: "It's my way or no way.".    From Wordnik.com.  [No Good Defense] Reference

Everyone important here is watched, and no one is likely to get a clear grip on a well-connected man like Lo Hsing Han.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burma's Men Of Gold] Reference

Privatization would also probably enrich a few well-connected Iraqis and create corrupt oligarchs, as happened in Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Wage War] Reference

They have their Washington and corporate ties; they have their well-do-do and well-connected media and polling consultants.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Was Hillary Thinking?] Reference

His Nokia cell phone rings constantly with calls from Mahdi Army reps and well-connected tribal sheiks making various demands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Moqtada Makeover] Reference

Wilson told NEWSWEEK that in the days after the Novak story appeared, he got calls from several well-connected Washington reporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secrets And Leaks] Reference

One could appear in the person of Mark Schnapp, 42, a tough, well-connected ex-prosecutor, who may announce for the primary this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary's Brother: A Big Pain] Reference

A well-connected acquaintance told Li (not her real name) that a professor on the university's admissions committee could help her son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diplomas For Dollars] Reference

Getting the stars to come is easy ( "When Mike Nichols calls you up you don't say no," Glenn Close says about the well-connected producer).    From Wordnik.com.  [Theater: Starring... You'll See] Reference

They inevitably tend to be well-informed, well-funded and well-connected players who bring vested interests into the back rooms of diplomacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Cause Is It, Anyway?] Reference

Americans have faith in the Supreme Court because they believe it's neutral, something more than the gut feelings of nine well-connected lawyers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Battle, Not The War] Reference

"Falun Gong has absolute control over people's hearts and minds -- that is what they are most afraid of," says a well-connected source in Hong Kong.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Wakes Up A Tiger] Reference

The Drobnys, along with a lot of other well-connected liberals, have been appalled by the tsunami of high-profile conservative commentators out there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Even Try The Imitation?] Reference

Getting there itself can still be difficult: non-Muslims usually need either a sponsor within the country or a well-connected travel agent or tour guide.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Oil Oasis] Reference

In Hollywood, Armani hired Wanda McDaniel, a well-connected society editor who'd been a bridesmaid at Maria Shriver's 1986 wedding to Arnold Schwarzenegger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing Dress Up] Reference

Pachachi and Chalabi are kind of like the George W. and Al Gore of Iraqi politics -- both of these guys are scions of very wealthy, well-connected families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shattering The Paradigm] Reference

At punk clubs across the nation, the sharks continue to circle, drawn by the smell of blood-and the phone calls of well-connected lawyers, managers or agents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searching For Nirvana Ii] Reference