You need good connections to get anything in this country - a scholarship, a job, a house.

All well and good, but what happens if the connections get severed?

But the vital connections they yearn for never get made.

They were arrested and contained, though Eric's connections with his father got them out of it.

They were being taught you need connections to get things and corruption does not matter.

But in 1869, the connection got better quickly, because the first railroad across the continent was finished.

His connections got him more information than would ever become public.

But peasants rarely have enough collateral or connections to get bank loans.

You must have my money and connections to get them.

Some of them clearly wanted to hide from the public just how unseemly the connection between contributions and influence can get.