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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Top hats, bow ties

Strong, strong, strong.

The three pillars upon which Western influence in the Middle East was built a strong military presence, commercial ties, and a string of dollar dependent states are crumbling.

He simply wore no ties

Sells ties as a front.

Because our ties were loose,

As leaders increasingly need to understand the relationship of networks to power, they will have to adapt strategies and create teams that benefit from both strong and weak ties.

Giving preferential treatment to citizens of neighbouring countries or countries with which there were strong ties was a well known phenomenon in Europe and the rest of the world.

Everybody has benefited from these ties.

Maybe it ties in. Let's see.

I cut my ties with Seibei.

And if there are ties, put that number in and resolve the ties in left to right order.

Its standoff with the West over its nuclear program, together with its ties to Syria and its growing influence in Lebanon and Iraq, suggest the emergence of a strong regional power.

In Africa, strong collaborative ties exist between United Nations organizations, bilateral development agencies, non governmental organizations and national Governments in responding to the cholera epidemics which continue to plague this continent.

Sub Saharan Africa, to which my country is linked by particularly strong cultural and historical ties, continues to be the region of the planet with the most worrying levels of development.

These effects are different from support in that they are less a function of the nature of immediate social ties but rather of the ties these immediate ties provide to other people.

Dan severed ties with his daughter, Linda.

Layla broke ties with her parents' religion.

Furthermore, trade tensions could weaken political ties.

This context and framework disciplined transatlantic ties.

Others have close ties to the government.

Germany has long standing ties with Afghanistan.