That led to a valuable network of high-level political connections.

We had high-level connections, so our students were treated promptly and efficiently.

He serves in the Caucasus and he's got lots of high-level connections, but he's not one of us.

But their commanding officer at the time said in an interview today that neither son was admitted because of his affluent background or high-level connections.

But no administration should be the investigator in a case that has so many high-level internal connections at Justice.

And they would need to be high-level connections for this to have happened.

Arkan was a powerful man with high-level connections in the state apparatus.

"With Hu and Zeng working together, the leadership is very strong and hard-line," said one person with high-level connections.

The technomist knew what question he would ask if he had had a high-level military connection, especially a retired general of the Russian strategic rocket forces.

Still, it was because he had adroitly managed to maintain his high-level connections for so long that his arrest came as such a shock.