Sentences with phrase «cultivate close ties»

«In turn, interviews and records show, some arbitrators cultivate close ties with companies to get business.»

However, the religious right remained a peripheral force until the 1970s, and gained serious political clout only during the Bhutto regime, which banned alcohol, declared Ahmadis as non-Muslim and cultivated close ties with Saudi Arabia.

Additionally, though the governor reluctantly supported the Democrats» effort to take over the State Senate this year, he has long cultivated close ties to the Republican delegation and to the IDC.

Those two groups have cultivated close ties to legislators and spent millions on political contributions, and in the past have defeated similar proposed cuts by saturating the airwaves with television commercials explaining their viewpoint.