Sentences with phrase «seeking closer ties»

Their goal: to bolster a fledgling movement seeking closer ties between schools and houses of faith by building an army of religious people to support public education.

Canine rabies is endemic in Turkey, for example, a country which is seeking closer ties with the EU.

He notes that the membership offer to Montenegro comes a year after Russia intervened in Ukraine in response to Kyiv seeking closer ties with the West.

Security analyst have also warned that isolating Pakistan could lead it to seek closer ties with Russia, Iran and China — rival powers whose influence in the region is a longstanding concern for the U.S.

It has actively sought close ties to third - world nations, Western Europe and Canada, and the socialist bloc countries — and it would like normalized relations with the United States.

At the beginning of my career in mathematical biology, I focused on forging relationships with Europe — Britain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, just to name a few — but over the last decade, I shifted gears and began to seek closer ties with mathematical biology groups in Latin American countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia as well as other regions of the world.

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This means that InterVarsity seeks to foster close - knit communities, tied together by a common faith and a common vision of what that faith ultimately means for one another.

Parents, including in - laws, are considered «close family» ties for people seeking to come to the U.S., but grandparents are not.

In June 2014, while speaking to the Labour Friends of Israel, Miliband stated that if he became Prime Minister he would seek «closer ties» with Israel and opposed the boycott of Israeli goods, saying that he would «resolutely oppose the isolation of Israel» and that nobody in the Labour Party should question Israel's right to exist.

Jeffrey Sachs, the elusive and influential head of a health care consulting firm with close ties to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, worked as a consultant to VillageCare, the former operator of the treatment facility, as the group sought to sell the Lower East Side property.

Prosecutors have alleged that TRMPAC officials — several of whom have close personal and professional ties to DeLay — essentially sought to launder corporate contributions through the RNC.

Former Albany Mayor Gerald Jennings, who has close ties to Gov. Cuomo, has been hired as a «consultant» for one of the groups considering seeking a license to manufacture and dispense medical marijuana in New York.

'' The Nigerian Police Force also wish to use these medium to seek for closer ties in information sharing and intelligence cooperation between Police services within the sub-region.

A health care consultant with close ties to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo did not violate state lobbying regulations when he contacted state officials on behalf of a Queens hospital seeking more Medicaid financing, a confidential investigation by the state ethics commission has determined.

Researchers seek a more competitive system for science as the government shuns closer ties with the European Union and decrees it will target any organization receiving money from abroad

Scotland will host a meeting of Arctic Circle nations for the first time next month as Nicola Sturgeon seeks to forge closer ties with the region ahead of A Hadrian's Wall - style border might have to be built to stop illegal migrants flooding into England if Scotland gets independence.

And when the group who was behind that effort - an interest group called Achieve, Incorporated that has close ties to Bill Gates - did seek input from educators, some of those educators refused to approve it until their concerns were addressed.

The game seeks to stand out from the battle royale crowd by maintaining closer mechanical ties to the survival genre from which these games spawned, as well as playing up the game - show angle by introducing the Show Director role.

Allen & Overy (A&O) is in merger discussions with US firm O'Melveny & Myers, Legal Week can reveal, with the magic circle firm edging closer to a long - sought transatlantic tie - up.

Widowed women are more likely than widowed men to seek out alternative social ties such as children and close friends instead of remarriage (Kim & Han, 1996).