Higher context cultures expect small, close knit groups, and reliance on that group.

New York The World s central bankers are a close knit club, given to fads and fashions.

By the 1920s, almost everyone in the close knit community was distantly related to each other.

Famously in France s Ancien Régime, the judges collectively acted as a close knit, self contained social class.

They place a high value on interpersonal relationships and group members are a very close knit community.

Plot Lucas is a member of a close knit Danish community and works at a local kindergarten.

The blogosphere today is huge and diverse yet for all its size we are still a close knit community.

I knit every day.

Tom likes to knit.

This can be seen in the fun the close knit team has when it sets off for the six hour river journey to play its next match.

Uvularia is a genus of plants in the family Colchicaceae, close to the lily family (Liliaceae).

(iii) refugees who have established close family, social, cultural and

At the same time, since Vatican II and in tandem with the decline of close knit ethnic enclaves churchgoers no longer feel obliged to hew to the letter of canon law.

Like I say, it's a tight knit community.

In contrast to Europe with its close knit network of multilateral organizations through which states formulate and conduct much of their foreign policies Russia is not accustomed to intensively cooperative international procedures.

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

A new system of family clinics provided primary health care close to the client.

The US textile lobby insisted that knit fabrics exported north come from Central America. The trouble is that Central America relies on third countries for knit fabrics.

Mr. Hannesson (Iceland), in closing, noted that Iceland had evolved from a small, close knit and homogeneous society into a one with an immigrant population that was now confronting and coming to terms with huge changes.

A tightly knit group of political consultants has helped Putin resolve his conundrum.

The issue is partly one of internationalism itself. In contrast to Europe with its close knit network of multilateral organizations through which states formulate and conduct much of their foreign policies Russia is not accustomed to intensively cooperative international procedures.

And that's a really important thing to understand, is that the vast majority of the edits that go on on the website are from a very close knit community of maybe 600 to 1,000 people who are in constant communication.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.

Sexual assault and coercion can occur at all stages of a woman's life, whether in the context of marriage, between close family or extended family members, between acquaintances or total strangers.

He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

By making a solemn resolution and telling our family and close friends about it, we tilt the scales against succumbing to temptation.

On the second point, the speaker said the family in Africa was considered to include all blood relations, whether close or distant.

Famously in France s Ancien Régime, the judges collectively acted as a close knit, self contained social class. The French Revolution and the introduction of universal suffrage were aimed as much at ridding France of the corporation of judges as they were at getting rid of the nobility.

You'll see a lot of people in my photographs today, and I've become very close with them, and they've welcomed me like family.

As Prince of Monaco, Louis II spent much time elsewhere, preferring to live on the family estate of Le Marchais close to Paris.

prohibit the perpetrator from coming close to the place of residence, school, job or certain place that another family member regularly goes to

They were married at Wenkenhof Villa in Riehen near Basel on 11 April 2009, surrounded by a small group of close friends and family.

Interviews have focused on family members whose telephone contacts and professional associations indicate close links to the suspect Mustapha Hamdan and other Lebanese officials.

According to a census by the Ministry of Social Affairs, there are 9 million family units constituting close to 37 million people living in poverty.

We need to create tightly knit networks of personal relations between the members of different social and religious groups.

They replied If a wolf should devour him when we are there , a well knit band , we shall certainly be treacherous .

They replied If a wolf should devour him when we are there , a well knit band , we shall certainly be treacherous .

Compassionate Care Leave has been introduced, allowing for up to eight weeks to allow an employee to care for a critically ill person in a close family relationship.

These guys are not the startups they are the mentors, carefully solicited by Kelly from within the tightly knit Irish business community.

That idea has knit together a country that many thought would not survive, and whose 60th birthday is therefore well worth celebrating.

People in close contact with the mentally ill, such as mental health professionals and family members of people affected, are the least likely to believe that they are dangerous.

I know they were close, but not that close.

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