Consider Asia, for example. As China s economic importance and regional influence grows, its neighbors are seeking to deepen ties with the US.

In private, however, many allied officials have told the media that they are even less inclined than they previously were to deepen NATO s ties with Georgia, given the risks of becoming entrapped in another Russian Georgian war.

The Kissinger Associates lobbying group, whose Russian section is headed by Graham, feeds in to the Kissinger Primakov working group, a quasi private sector effort, blessed by Putin, to deepen ties between Russia and the United States.

As economic relations deepen, cultural relationships develop.

This will generally deepen discontent and hasten conflict.

In short, thanks to the EU and NATO, the stability on its Western borders that Russia has sought for centuries has now been achieved. Russia should be celebrating and it should be seizing the opportunity to deepen its ties with the West.

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

But, while these efforts have helped to deepen Japan s economic ties with China, they have not had the transformative impact on bilateral relations that one might have expected. Indeed, their relationship is now characterized by what the Japanese call seirei keinetsu (cold politics, hot economics).

In the former case, the transatlantic rift will deepen dramatically.

This means that reform cannot deepen divisions that would be illogical.

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

This is causing the Saudi state to deepen the Sunni Shia schism.

The IMF will deepen its involvement in those issues as aid increases.

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.

So countries began to deepen and develop international law by building shared institutions.

Everybody has benefited from these ties.

In addition to playing our role in accordance with applicable Security Council resolutions, the OPCW continues to develop and deepen its contacts with the United Nations in the context of the relationship agreement between the two organizations, which, as members know, is aimed at strengthening cooperation and forging closer international and regional ties.

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.

Recognizing that cooperation between the Community and the United Nations system has continued to deepen,

Noting that some effects of globalization may deepen the socio economic marginalization of rural women,

These issues carry deep implications for economic ties.

These ties have continued up to the present.

And ( the mystic ties of ) parent and child

And ( the mystic ties of ) parent and child

And they must work together to deepen regional trade integration, thereby creating a much larger market.

Divisions in the kingdom are sharper than ever, and the King s death might deepen them further.

In the meantime, political, social, and economic chaos will deepen, and Haiti's impoverished people will suffer.

Leaders in developed and developing countries alike must deepen their commitment to economic reform and integration.

And then all this ties into the financial overview.

6. Promote China s traditional civilization with strengthened spiritual ties.

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

Other factors discussed included dual citizenship and ethnic ties.

Nor can they do much in an official way to deepen economic interdependence in the short term.

While sanctions may deepen Iran s predicament, they are unlikely to break the diplomatic impasse on nuclear weapons.

Universities all over the world are falling over each other trying to deepen their engagement with China.

It would likely create lasting ties between people and economies.

In the 1990 s, bilateral economic ties continued to expand.

Such an agreement could also transform transatlantic ties more broadly.

Their ties with the region are those of the diaspora.

This will sustain, if not deepen, global disparities, especially given northern countries unwillingness to allow free international migration.