1.   After the Gulf War he was promoted rapidly and began to mix more in political circles.

2.   But hardly anyone in political circles, including Republican loyalist redoubts on Capitol Hill, believes that right now.

3.   For now, such notions of bigness play well in political circles but thankfully not in all banking ones.

4.   For the most part these newspapers were owned by persons high in political circles or were subsidized by special interest groups.

5.   The hot topic in political circles here is who might become Sen.

6.   There are various species of Sizewell men - no, in modern political circles, Sizewell people.

7.   There has been a lot of debate about this issue in political circles.

8.   Yet he had somehow established a reputation in political circles as something out of the ordinary.

9.   He has a lot of pull in local political circles.

10.   Already, these issues are boiling up in political circles.