Isn't it important to have influential connections with the outer world?

She was a local power holder, with good and influential connections to the authorities.

She returned to Germany and created influential connections in the postwar society.

Stephens had influential political connections in Portugal, exempting his business from taxes.

He has no inherited wealth or influential connections who can advance his career.

The marriage is said to have brought Hamilton influential connections, and he began the practice of the law.

They are usually men who have made fortunate investments through the judicious use of influential connections.

She could have been, Diana said silently, thinking of her aunt's comfortable income, her influential connections.

On the other hand, she had influential connections.

But she had consented to accept him on a friendly footing, which was by no means the case with all of his wife's influential connections.