Many lawmakers say that the Director should be a well-known and well-connected figure who can command direct access to the President.

Gardiner was a noted and well-connected literary figure, particularly in London in the years around Second World War, though very much in the tradition of the literary amateur.

According to the surviving evidence, Laodice was a well-connected figure and perhaps a well-known identity in ancient Greek and Persian societies.

The Czech would assume that the executive must be a well-connected figure.

Hoffmann, a popular and well-connected figure in his hometown, became an active member of several non-political public bodies during his lifetime.

And for decades he was a prominent, well-connected figure in his native Queens.

In 1921, he left Chekhov's school to join "Molodye Mastera" studio, under Illarion Pevtsov, a well-connected figure in Soviet film and theatre.

For an academic, Ayer was an unusually well-connected figure in his time, with close links to 'high-society' and the establishment.

Though ostensibly a newcomer, Ms. Sarney is in another sense both a very familiar and well-connected figure.

He is a well-connected figure in and promoter of the arts, particularly film and literature.