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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.

A moving story of a 10 year old boy who travels to La Gran Sabana to meet his grandmother and rebuild family ties.

Certain aspects of marriage and family ties from article 16 of the Convention have been covered within the framework of the three projects.

The new law damaged ties between residents of Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, especially, as described above, between family members.

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.

The Palestinian Authority and the newly elected municipalities in Gaza face a deeply impoverished population in which tribal and family ties have strongly re emerged.

Ms. Karawa's application for a protection visa, dated 24 September 1990, expressly stated by way of information relevant to her claim that she had very strong ties with Australia, having been there since 1985, and having an Australian born child as well as immediate family who were Australian citizens and residents.

Cell phone coverage could revolutionize communications for sparse populations in Darfur s vast territory, with major benefits for livelihoods, physical survival, and the maintenance of family ties.

His Cultural Revolution alone killed as many as two million people, shattered traditions, uprooted spiritual and ethical values, and tore apart family ties and communal loyalties.

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.

The Nashashibi family had particularly strong influence in Palestine during the British Mandate Period from 1920 until 1948.

The women had suffered as they had taken up strong family roles in the absence of their husbands.

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.

His departure would expose the anachronistic nature of the state s ideological foundation family ties will do nothing to protect his successor from the resulting shock to the system.

The flowers in this family are usually pink or white and large and showy, often with a strong scent.

It is becoming a strong and independent teenager who has hopefully found its place in the United Nations family.

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.

The Syrian people are strong, patient, resilient, and resourceful. Family and social bonds remain potent in the face of adversity.

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.

Efforts to ensure that the elderly person continues to live among the members of his or her family and is provided with necessary means for a life of dignity amid the warmth of the family and the intimate rapport that ties its members together

The disgruntled general, who has long standing ties to the type of jihadists that the United States is battling in Yemen, merely sought to settle a score with the president s family.

Drug dealers were allegedly paid by Israeli authorities to visit pubs and other places in the occupied Golan in order to attract Arab youth and thus destabilize family and community ties.