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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 closer ties should include opportunities for legal migration to Europe.

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

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 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.

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?

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

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

The boxes are too narrow.

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

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

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

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

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.

Shortly before Christmas, Czech TV s director, who was resisting political pressure, was replaced by Jiri Hodac, a man with close ties to ODS.

Recent opinion polls suggest that at least half of all South Koreans are worried enough about regional tensions to support closer military ties with Japan.

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.

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

The ultraconservative connection?

While the foundation says it operates without regard for nationality, citizenship, or religion, it appears to have close ties to state and religious officials in Russia.

Stronger ties among Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar and the spectacular successes of the latter s Sunni proxies in Syria will put pressure on Iran to cut Assad loose or risk being drawn even deeper into the Syrian quagmire.

One way to ensure that a friendly regime holds sway in Kabul after the US withdrawal would be to introduce into the governing structure a group with close ties to Pakistan.

If anything, the US has been gradually loosening its close links with Taiwan, with no US cabinet member visiting the island since those missile maneuvers.

Policymakers will need to focus on increasing the technical and cognitive skills of university graduates, and on building a few world class research universities with strong links to industry.

Belarus shows no sign of backing down and has put out an Interpol warrant for Uralkaliy majority shareholder Suleiman Kerimov, a Dagestani oligarch and Senator with close links to the Kremlin.

Why was it not enough to prove that the Bosnian Serb military leadership was financed and paid by Serbia and that it was tightly connected to Serbia political and military leadership?

Her ties to Brazil s huge evangelical churches, and her unwillingness to break with them on issues such as abortion, same sex marriage, and drug policy, alienate many voters.

These journalists have close connections with editors or management staff from more established media outlets that cannot initiate their own investigative reports because of internal censorship.

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This closer embrace of Cuba mixes self interest with calculation.

How much of it will be lost, particularly if a new regime in Baghdad punishes Jordan for its close ties with the Iraqi government, is a worrying question.