Montazeri was once a confidant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led Iran for a decade after the revolution.
The two clicked, and Isgur eventually became a confidant and a personal assistant.
The U.S. government says Hamdan was a confidant and bodyguard of bin Laden and helped transfer weapons from the Taliban to al-Qaida.
My thoughts turned quickly to her role as a supporter, her role as a mother, her role as a confidant to her husband.
The Queen herself has been the target of a rash of assassination attempts, which is why Mycroft, a confidant of hers, gets involved.
Putting the experience into words is freeing for many men, whether they tell a loved one, a professional, a confidant, or simply write in a journal.
He is a confidant of Mr Blair, but he will want to be sure that there is some chance of changing the prime minister's mind on reform before accepting the job if it is offered.
In May media reports quoted Gustavo Larrea, a government minister and a confidant of President Rafael Correa, as saying that miners in Ecuador would be hit with a strict tax hike that would take away 70% to 80% of revenues.
He was, Mr Ferguson asserts, the best-read banker of all time and he was not shy about making his views known on a host of issues, whether in letters to the Times or, behind closed doors, as a confidant of political leaders.
Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, as well as a neighbor of the mobster Frank Costello and a confidant of Roosevelt's inner circle, even a sometimes guest invited to the White House to amuse the president over a drink the in-the-know street fighter and hardboiled man about town whom his enemies feared and who was on our side.
Four years on, with the economy slowly recovering and no prospect of re-election, the president clearly feels comfortable enough to put a trusted confidant and adviser in the job, rather than a Wall Street grandee or business leader.
"The president believed they weren't trying to defeat him, but to wound him, " a Karzai confidant said.
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FJK. As a former confidant of President Nursultan Nazarbaev, he knew Kazakh politics better than most oppositionists.
Tlas "was a close confidant of Bashar from his earliest days and part of his inner circle, " Landis said.
Having a close confidant in space would allow them to share their day-to-day experiences with someone they love and trust.
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The government has created the post of deputy chief of army staff for General Muzaffar Usmani, a close confidant of General Musharraf's.
Mr. Suleiman, a former confidant of Mr. Mubarak, was deemed ineligible to run because his campaign didn't gather enough signatures to support his candidacy.
In his column, the paper's former political editor Trevor Kavanagh - long regarded as a close confidant of Murdoch - expressed concern at the management's actions.
The first charges for phone hacking itself came last week, as prosecutors charged a former aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron and a close confidant of media baron Rupert Murdoch, along with six others.
He was a trusted friend and confidant, and for all of his immense talents as a professional, he was an even better person.
The Telegraph, meanwhile, described him as a "close confidant" of Cameron.
His closest confidant is a Russian immigrant named Kirill Gura, who lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
While these attempts to calm things down have been ignored, a wild speech by Peter Mandelson, a former minister and confidant of Mr Blair, is taken seriously.
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On April 21st Charles Clarke, a former home secretary, mocked as hypocritical a plea for unity by Ed Balls, the schools secretary and a long-time confidant of Mr Brown.
One long-time confidant is Yitzhak Molcho, a lawyer who was at his side in his first term and whom American diplomats credit with achieving the modest progress that was then eventually made in negotiation with the Palestinians.
Zaccagnini said that after Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff approached Tripp in March 1997 to ask her what she knew about Willey's allegations that Clinton groped her just outside the Oval Office, Tripp refused to answer his questions and tried to contact Bruce Lindsey, a White House attorney and close Clinton confidant.
Koh Yong Hee, a former dancer, was considered Kim's closest confidant.
A., man Friday, driver, delivery boy, confidant, and crying towel.
And she was one of the first Labour MPs openly to criticise Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair's close confidant and formerly Northern Ireland Secretary, famously calling him a source of "poison" in the government.
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