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.

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?

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.

He's picky about suits and ties.

The two nations have strong trade ties.

Germany has long standing ties with Afghanistan.

It ties to origami. So let me start.

Promote China s traditional civilization with strengthened spiritual ties.

And (the mystic ties of) parent and child

And (the mystic ties of) parent and child

And then all this ties into the financial overview.

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

Other factors discussed included dual citizenship and ethnic ties.

For instance, sexually transmitted diseases will spread across sexual ties.

In very different ways, the US, Russia, and China are offering Germany a privileged relationship. But, though we want to maintain and strengthen bilateral ties with important partner countries, when it comes to shaping global development, Germany is capable of acting effectively only within a solid European framework.

Sixth, ties of cultural exchanges and cooperation are to be tightened.

And different sorts of things spread across different sorts of ties.

People, I guess, decided that they would not wrinkle their ties.

This trip reinforced the importance of programmatic ties and regional leadership.

As a result, the legal ties to Saint Kitts were severed.

The marriage consisted of historical, commercial, military, cultural and other ties.

However, this judge had personal ties with lawyers of the firm.

Effective military cooperation requires personal ties that take years to build, and, aside from some joint naval and air exercises, the two countries have little experience working together. Boosting technical interoperability also will take considerable time, though both countries maintain sophisticated defense forces with great potential to be linked together.

Maintain aspect ratio

Maintain rational thought.

Half the people who developed the food pyramid have ties to agribusiness.

So, this is a map of 714 students and their friendship ties.

It is our unity in our diversity that ties our dreams together.

Despite occasional visits to Tanzania, he has no ties to that country.

Such leave, referred to in the Staff Regulations and the Staff Rules as home leave, is granted to eligible staff members for the purpose of enabling them to maintain effective association with the culture of their home country, to keep up their professional interests and to renew their family and personal ties therein.

Values that maintain the proposition that their prayers, and their prayers alone, maintain the cosmic balance.

How they maintain them?

According to Muslim law, ties of loyalty formalized the sovereignty of the State.

The ties between Lachin and NK are more evident than in other districts.

Strengthening our ties with Africa has been a long standing aspiration of Brazil's.

While Asian countries are largely willing to maintain and even expand their economic ties with China, none (except North Korea, which depends on Chinese aid) is prepared to accept it as the region s primary power. In fact, US allies like Indonesia and India have emerged as global players largely in response to China s rise.

I look at the logo, and it sort of ties it to my brain.

There was a time when I made them wear jackets and shirts and ties.

It ties in with small scale farmers in terms of no pesticides, no fertilizers.

Free space and maintain privacy

I keep it with me to remind me of the ties that tie me to the young women I wrote about, ties that are not economic but personal in nature, measured not in money but in memories.

The US and China could escape the potentially destructive endgame of a codependent relationship by recasting their ties as a more constructive and sustainable interdependency. An interdependent relationship fosters healthy interaction between partners, who satisfy their own needs rather than relying on others to do so, and maintain their own identities while appreciating the relationship s mutual benefits.

Now, nearly one million people have fled Burma s political and economic chaos for neighboring countries, and another million people remain internally displaced. Our youth are at an all time high risk of drug addiction from the massive flow of narcotics, particularly amphetamine type stimulants (ATS), from Burma, while the generals there maintain congenial ties with notorious drug lords.

2.5 Persons belonging to minorities have the right to establish and maintain, without any discrimination, free and peaceful contacts with other members of their group and with persons belonging to other minorities, as well as contacts across frontiers with citizens of other States to whom they are related by national or ethnic, religious or linguistic ties

It ties together all this into the power of expectation and the power of belief.