The response from both has been muted (as it has from Thailand, which also has strong economic ties with Myanmar).

Some create strong ties, while others produce weak ties. Think of the difference between friendships and acquaintances.

They're important because they have access to resources that your strong ties don't have.

He makes an additional indictment of our strong ties when he says that these people who are so close to us, these strong ties in our lives, actually have a homogenizing effect on us.

Everybody has benefited from these ties.

Germany has long standing ties with Afghanistan.

American relations with Japan and China remain strong, and he has greatly enhanced the United States ties with India, the world s second most populous country.

Rudd, by contrast, raised the idea of an Asia Pacific Community with strong ties to the US.

But the core of Japan s defense strategy remains strong ties with the US, not military self sufficiency.

Weak ties, such as one finds on the Internet, are more effective than strong ties for providing the necessary information to link diverse groups together in a cooperative manner.

In the United States, du Pont developed strong ties with industry and government, in particular with Thomas Jefferson.

Brazil and the Arab world are renewing their ties of friendship, inspired by strong historical and cultural affinities.

Equally strong ties have been established with SADC and its predecessor, SADCC, during their 13 years of existence.

Vietnam, too, has strengthened its ties with the US.

To make your farming dreams come true, you're going to have to press beyond your strong ties, people like your family and closest friends, and try tapping into your weaker ties.

Moreover, the Cauca region throughout its long history had very strong economic and cultural ties with the people of Ecuador.

Iran has strengthened its economic and military ties, especially in Venezuela.

Singapore still maintains strong security ties with Israel and is one of the biggest buyers of Israeli arms and weapons systems.

Officers in the Ottoman Egyptian army were appointed locally from the various militias, and had strong ties to the Egyptian aristocracy.

That team has strong players.

Despite occasional visits to Tanzania, he has no ties to that country.

Moreover, it maintains strong and diversified ties with the majority of the European countries, of which the Mediterranean is the main carrier.

Two of the prominent leaders of these tribes are both Shia, with the difference being that one has close ties to Iran while the other has close ties to Saudi Arabia.

Believing that strong economic ties and cooperation can contribute significantly to the building of strong, friendly relations and acceleration of the development of free markets, economic growth and job creation in both countries

A vow has made you strong?

He has a very strong voice.

Mark Granovetter, Stanford sociologist, in 1973 in his seminal essay The Strength of Weak Ties, made the point that these weak ties that are a part of our networks, these strangers, are actually more effective at diffusing information to us than are our strong ties, the people closest to us.

Social, tribal, and economic ties between the provinces of Deir al Zour in Syria and Anbar in Iraq are strong and have strengthened further as control by the Syrian and Iraqi governments has loosened.

9. The need to link capital assistance to institutional capacity building means that UNCDF has maintained strong ties with UNDP and continues to operate in close coordination with other donors, both bilateral and multilateral.

India has traditional and historical ties of friendship with Afghanistan and its people.

As modernism proceeds, strong ties in traditional communities become weaker and weaker, while the need to care for each other grows stronger and stronger.

Everyone has both strong and weak points.

But it's strong because it has faith.

India has historic ties of friendship and socio cultural links with the Palestinian people.

It needs not just closer economic ties, but also closer political ties.

Networks based on strong ties produce the power of loyalty, but may become cliques that re circulate conventional wisdom. They may succumb to group think.

It is in fact a grouping of mini states and emirates connected by strong historical, economic and social ties, but each one is completely independent.

Equally strong ties have been established with SADC and its predecessor, the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), over the 14 years of their existence.

Pursuant to the law, on 27 July Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri officially announced the composition of the new Government, which has 41 members, of whom 7 are women and 2 have strong ties with an opposition party.

The second pillar of the West s Middle East role commercial ties has also been weakened.

On the multilateral front, New Caledonia has strengthened its ties with the European Union (EU).

ASEAN has also built cooperative and consultative ties with States in the Asia Pacific region.

Since the family register has been revised, you have no ties to the princess now.

Has Been Vouchsafed a Strong Inner Conviction (Laughter)

France has not forgotten the depth of the crisis in sub Saharan Africa, with which it has so many ties.