During the heart of his career, Roberts's circle of professional peers consisted entirely of other wealthy and accomplished lawyers.
A Georgetown-educated former investment banker, Ms. Sanford is surrounded by a close-knit circle of professional women.
Celebrations of the publisher's 60th anniversary in 2005 helped bring him out of the circle of professional and academic admirers to a much wider audience.
On Sunday, news of Brewer's death spread across Twitter and Facebook, where a wide circle of professional contacts and friends expressed their shock and shared memories of their friend and colleague.
In Eisenstadt and Esterháza, in Vienna and Paris, and first and foremost in London, he was surrounded by a small but knowledgeable circle of professional and amateur musicians who received each new work with interest and appreciation.
The proposal from the twins, who already have sizable bitcoin holdings, is an audacious one: the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust could send digital money from the realm of computer programmers, Internet entrepreneurs and a small circle of professional investors like themselves into the hands of retail investors — virtually anyone with a brokerage account.
Like karate, street art is more difficult than it looks, particularly the trick of making a living from it, maintaining a combat-ready crew of studio assistants, and all the time persuading an ever-widening circle of professional acquaintance to keep the secret of your anonymity.
Nunez, a Washington Heights travel agent who became essentially a personal valet for the Levinsons' Spanish-speaking clients, has emerged as a key bridge, between the anti-aging clinic, Biogenesis, and a wide circle of professional baseball players, according to people with direct knowledge of baseball's doping investigation.
