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.

You have ties with the Royal Family now.

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

Negative impact on social relations and family ties due to movement restrictions39

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.

However, despite this rapid change in the functional structure of families and society in general, family ties in the region remain strong and the family is still considered the primary source of cohesion and support for its individual members.

Considerable overlap of ownership by individuals linked by family and kinship ties, or by partnerships among kin and family friends

Family ties, geographic contiguity, and shared history and traditions ensure that this is so.

Ties of family, culture and commerce form an interrelated network linking us closely together.

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

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 this society the family played a central role, since economic and social status was defined by birth, family ties, and local custom.

They do not respect their promises nor their family ties with the believers . They are transgressors .

They do not respect their promises nor their family ties with the believers . They are transgressors .

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.

If you turn away , you are likely to make mischief on earth , and sever your family ties .

If you turn away , you are likely to make mischief on earth , and sever your family ties .

A strong and democratic family should be promoted as an important element of an equally strong and democratic society.

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

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

However, in spite of the efforts made to strengthen family ties, the family may lose one its basic components, making it an unfit environment for child rearing.

Peace, he said, was not possible in an environment where there were no family ties and where materialism ruled.

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.

Ties between families are strong and of vital importance to ni Vanuatu who rely on each other for social and cultural survival and it has traditionally been the role of the extended family to provide security and livelihood for its members.

Just to see my girlfriend's face, I have to pull on my ties with the Royal Family in Britain? Gosh.

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

Eight in 10 say the family they have today is as strong or stronger than the family they grew up in.

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

The promotion of a strong and dynamic family is an important element in the construction of an equally strong, democratic and dynamic society.

Thirty is not the new 20, so claim your adulthood, get some identity capital, use your weak ties, pick your family.

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.

The promotion of a strong, democratic and dynamic family is an important element in the construction of an equally strong, democratic and dynamic society.

These family ties and subsequent exchanges and reciprocity have contributed to the maintenance of family support and act as control mechanisms for problems such as hunger and poverty to some extent.

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

Family ties are what enable them to face more calmly a future that often seems to them uncertain and sometimes even frightening.

19. Resettlement will be limited to 40 cases with specific protection problems in Egypt, vulnerable cases, and those with family ties abroad.

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

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.

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.