Sentence examples for formidable connections from inspiring English sources
With his formidable connections, negotiating skills and charm, he took to it like a duck to water.
Princelings, the sons and daughters of current and former senior Chinese officials, have flocked to the private equity industry, using their formidable connections to secure valuable government contracts and low-rate loans from state-owned banks for their investments.
Mr Shan's formidable connections helped Newbridge also to gain control over management, a first for a foreign investor in a Chinese bank.Mao Zedong's purges halted Mr Shan's formal education at the age of 12.
Yet, O'Brien continued to use her skills and formidable connections for good by running charity golf tournaments for causes she cared about.
His frail physique prevented him from being drafted, but not from spending most of the second world war establishing a formidable network of connections and making friends of differing political hues.
As a civil servant in Rio in the 1930's, Mr. Flores wove a formidable network of connections, which he later used as a director of the Sul America insurance group.
In Miami, United is fighting a losing battle with American, which has built up a formidable hub with connections to 35 U.S. cities, compared with 11 for United.
As Melanne Verveer, then the ambassador for global women's issues, told me, "He can endear himself in situations where someone viewed as a great authority or extremely formidable cannot make the connections that he can".
In Miami, United is fighting a losing battle with American, which has built up a formidable hub there with connections to 35 U.S. cities, compared with only 11 for United.
He has had public spats with his brother, whose support is by no means guaranteed, but his family name and connections could provide formidable help even without the incumbent.
"The strategic challenge is, given the amazing asset of our formidable journalism, to make the connection between that and those willing to pay," Mr. Thompson said.
