Sentence examples for placed friends from inspiring English sources

But he had high-powered lawyers and, like Mr. Schwarzenegger, highly placed friends and family to defend him.

Senator McCain represents old politics: the politics that greases the regulatory path for donors and highly placed friends, and has him jetting off on a private plane with a glitzy young female lobbyist from a corporate dinner.

But he also came armed with a weighty Rolodex full of highly placed friends to personally lobby city officials, state legislators and others for what the Denver schools needed.

He placed friends, familiar faces, and then, in all the seats near him and in the gallery above, and this was the most risky and exciting prospect, he placed strangers.

Rajaratnam, 53, is accused of getting inside stock tips from highly placed friends and associates about companies, including Google Inc , Intel Corp and Goldman Sachs Group between 2003 and 2009.

I know of one corporation that had a demand widely supported by other businesses and highly placed friends in the government, yet got nowhere for more than a year, largely because the company's arguments were so easily torn apart by government economists.

He managed to get the money and leave the city, negotiating the militia roadblocks using a credential that a highly placed friend had given him.

Both sides, he complains, have forgotten the benefits that placing friends above others can confer in business.

The mobile industry is a funny place, friends.

Built into a tab in Facebook's primary mobile apps, Nearby shows you places friends have been, Liked, or recommended.

On the main screen you can now quickly jump to five areas: Me, Settings, Places, Friends, and Map.