| Apart from paying the bribe, his only other option was to cultivate wasta, or connections. |
| The politicians may have returned to a higher plane, but Morsi was still down with the basics: food, water, electricity, wasta. |
| So never mind any new laws, the same sponsor wasta or nepotistic connections will allow them all to drive anyway, and they easily get around any edict. |
| At the heart of the complaints among the protesters — more than poverty and unemployment and low wages — is the sense that the pervasive corruption of wasta, or connections, must end. |
| To retake it he needed more Iraqi recruits, so he decided to woo local leaders who had wasta, or influence. |
| Once you qualify to join a place like Dubai Internet City, staff will often use their wasta to open doors for you. |
