Sentence examples for connections to get ahead from inspiring English sources

Still, Mr. Pierce said he was leery of trading on his family connections to get ahead.

Nguyen says many business people use government connections to get ahead.

Chinese companies and workers wield advantages: Tibetans often lack the linguistic skill and the connections to get ahead.

Mr. West, in turn, parried that Mr. Murphy was a Democratic puppet who relied on his father's wealth and connections to get ahead.

"I am always struck by how African leaders say they need the return of talent," says Mr Martin, "and yet my own students try every trick to stay, saying that they are in the wrong tribe, or do not have the right connections to get ahead".

Some believe using connections to get ahead is cheating.

The service, which will be available only to those with high-speed Internet connections, is an attempt to get ahead of piracy problems that have plagued the music industry through services like Napster and which were beginning to be felt in the film industry with newer file-swapping services.

Not lost on any of them was the oddity that with Mr. Shazli dead, they no longer had the connections — known as "wasta" here — to get ahead.

It is hard to get ahead without connections.

In order to get ahead, it's valuable to have connections that, when combined with your own determination and intelligence, have the power to make things happen.

"To get ahead here you have to be corrupt or have connections; we prefer a stable life".