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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DAKAR This month, Africa s Francophone countries will mark the 50th anniversary of their independence, and of the ties they maintain with France.

The process keeps the skeleton strong and helps it to maintain a balance of minerals.

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.

In order to maintain strong economic growth in America, we need a strong, growing Asia, just as Asia s success depends on a thriving US.

In a 1976 referendum Guamanians decided to maintain close ties with the United States, but also to begin negotiations to improve the Territory's status.

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.

We demand respect for the rights of Cuban families and the right of our peoples to maintain and develop ties of solidarity, cooperation and friendship.

DAKAR This month, Africa s Francophone countries will mark the 50th anniversary of their independence, and of the ties they maintain with France. But is there much to celebrate?

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.

So, too, the renminbi s stability has helped the region maintain strong growth, from which the world as a whole benefits.

Because financiers and savers have limited confidence in the future, such regimes can t readily build and maintain strong foundations for financial development.

Oil is Putin s army and navy, allowing him to build and maintain the image of a strong, but also an internationalist, state.

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

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.

Expatriate populations or diaspora played an important role in such partnerships and deserved to be encouraged and sustained in their effort to maintain ties with home countries, through human and financial networks.

Those who believe that investments in the US stock market will maintain the same strong growth trend for decades may well be right.

KFOR has strengthened its operational capabilities, and we welcome NATO's intent to maintain its strong presence to deal with challenges that may arise.

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.

In order to maintain their dominance, Arab governments have relied on flawed laws and elections that don t produce strong parliaments or lead to real change.

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.

Some non party Member States have indicated that they may maintain their reservations about accession for as long as they see parties themselves voicing strong doubts.

World War II Despite the regime's quasi fascist tendencies and strong economic ties to Nazi Germany, King George was known to have pro British feelings at the start of World War II.

In the past, he clipped the wings of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had strong ties to the merchant class, and of Mohammad Khatami, a reformer whose support came from Westernized middle class professionals.

Together, these three institutions lend more than 130 billion ( 168 billion) annually for projects in Europe and beyond, and maintain a strong advisory role in beneficiary countries.

For much of the world, China s ability to shrug off the global financial crisis and maintain a strong growth trajectory in 2010 and 2011 seems too easy.

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.

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.

Everybody has benefited from these ties.

His delegation hoped that MINUSTAH would continue providing strong support to the National Police in their efforts to maintain public order and security in the present trying times.

Nowhere is there a credible plan to limit the concentration of wealth and power, broaden economic gains through strong real income growth for the poor, and maintain macroeconomic stability.

We also have a strong resolve to maintain and further strengthen our amicable relationships not only with our immediate neighbours but also with all the countries of the world.

Dan severed ties with his daughter, Linda.