They don't have phones or Xeroxes; they lack good connections.

The odds are already against a young ex-convict, lacking money and connections, in managing to escape from China.

His father, John Davys, was a small landowner who seems to have lacked influential connections.

Even if you lack special connections through a school or library, you can use free online reference tools.

For the present, he lacked the wealth and connections to prevent the collapse of Barleywood.

Lacking instant connections to an offshore money launderer, she lost $150 of it before the return to port.

Tighter credit may mean that banks stop lending to enterprises lacking good connections.

But they lack connections and money, and that, they say, has proved to be a nearly fatal flaw.

Still, he said, Bangladeshis have not been able to break into larger public projects because they lack political connections.

There was no room in his plans for a girl who lacked social connections.