The boxes are too narrow.

The United States has close ties to Mexico.

We still do have that bond with the home country.

The head of UCP, Ilya Shcherbowich, is said to have close ties to the Kremlin.

At the economic level, Jordan's ties with Iraq are very close.

Also at this time, the members of the Parliament were elected.

It is said to have close links to the president and his family.

And closer ties should include opportunities for legal migration to Europe.

Anna Arkadyevna Karenina had friends and close connections in three different sets.

This closer embrace of Cuba mixes self interest with calculation.

Back then, the Communist Party was still powerful, and maintained close ties with the Soviet Union.

In short, closer business government relationships are being re established throughout the Asian Pacific region.

Given the close connections of wealth and power with the law, reining in corporate crime will be an enormous struggle.

Overly close contacts with NATO (let alone membership) would deprive Russia of strategic independence.

Closer ties between Russia and the European Union make sense for similar reasons.

So it is no surprise that Japan is pushing to develop closer economic and strategic ties with India.

The next US president, whether he is Barack Obama or John McCain, will certainly maintain the close bilateral alliance.

Though well connected to the military and security community, Rowhani was clearly considered an outsider.

Closer ties between Russia and the European Union make sense for similar reasons.

Thus, Putin does not view closer relations with the West as an ideological imperative, but as a resource for Russia's economic modernization.

His close connections with the oil industry make him loathe to force it to pay for its pollution.

Mail.Ru group management is said to have close ties with the Kremlin, and the company happens to also own Russia s other large social network, Odnoklassniki.ru.

And better relations with Egypt presuppose closer ties with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Georgia's increasingly pro Western course, including growing ties to NATO, has been a thorn in Moscow's side.

Some Taliban groups in Afghanistan and elsewhere developed close ties with transnational Al Qaeda terrorists.

The figures that will be presented are the result of a lengthy process, in which the bureaucracy closely consulted with LDP.

It has also created more ties between Iranians inside and outside the country.

Japan, Australia, Indonesia, and Taiwan have all recently closed trade and security related deals with the US.

The disappearance of Vasyl Klymentyev, the editor in chief of Novyi Styl, a newspaper which focuses heavily on corruption in the Kharkiv region, has never been fully investigated.

Close links between business and governments were blamed by many for the financial crisis that struck Southeast Asia in 1997.

Close ties between the state and their Orthodox churches forged state religions that helped to create a strong sense of national messianism.

Banks tend to have close, long term, and protective ties with the managers of such firms, primarily because the bank's holdings are illiquid.

Familial bonds brought Vietnamese migrants to Slovakia, yet it is the close ties to their home country that unites the community.

But those compromises are like statistics or skimpy swimsuits what they show is less important than what they hide.

Roughly one half of US Congressmen are millionaires, and many have close ties to companies even before they arrive in Congress.

The US should tap India s potential as an engine for economic recovery, and consult much more closely with it on matters of finance, trade, and investment.

He also maintained close ties with Russian Way, an ultra nationalist group whose leader later founded the neo nazi group BORN. Socrates, you're free!

Closer relations between Europe and Turkey, Russia, and Ukraine can deliver for them many of the same benefits that we in Spain always associated with Europe.

This alerted Pakistan to the fact that, with the imminent departure of US troops, it would be left alone to fight the insurgency on both sides of its border with Afghanistan. To do that, Pakistan would need help from some of the Afghan Pashtun tribes with which it had developed strong relations during the war against the Soviet Union.

To do that, Pakistan would need help from some of the Afghan Pashtun tribes with which it had developed strong relations during the war against the Soviet Union.

Does Germany find it difficult to reconcile its close relations with Israel and the USA on the one hand, and the position of its most important partners in the EU on the other?

Food and alcohol have a long relationship, though Japan s affection for good whiskey is somewhat surprising, considering that sake usually hogs the cultural spotlight.

There is a positive side to such problems, however, namely that their very emergence reflects the deepening and broadening of bilateral relations.

The EU's Wider Europe strategy does call for closer ties to Ukraine, and for allowing us increased access to the EU's single market.

But, given Armenia s alliance with Russia and Azerbaijan s close ties with Turkey, an eruption over Karabakh could very well escalate regionally.