Sentences with phrase «tightly knit groups»

Next, the researchers identified the most tightly knit groups in each network and determined how much their members changed over time.

I found the Dutch quite enthusiastic about such activities once they had warmed to the idea, and as they seem to have a genetic propensity for forming tightly knit groups, you can gain valuable colleagues this way.

Guppies exposed to predators tend to aggregate into smaller, more tightly knit groups, which may allow them to coordinate their predator avoidance strategies.

Many have noted that while globalization has been drawing people together into worldwide unions and federations, opposite forces have been focusing attention on individualism and on small, tightly knit groups and movements.

Hierarchies — they're the stuff of dictators, plutocrats, big bosses and tightly knit groups.

Launched in 2003, they were to be the SWAT units of the capital markets — crack, tightly knit groups of financial investigators, legal advisers, forensic accountants and other specialists.

Genetically, it belongs to a tightly knit group of wild taxa including C. eximium (Bolivia and northern Argentina), C. cardenasii (Bolivia), and C. tovarii (Peru).

When you are a very tightly knit group and everyone is depending on everyone else, you do what you need to do.»

His family shattered, Leo eventually finds his place with a tightly knit group of high school friends, and the novel follows the intersections and complications of their lives through adulthood.

The eight - person cast of trainers and behavior specialists, which Erica refers to as «a very tightly knit group,» consists of Manager, Vincent Buscemi, Feline Behaviorists, Dorit Shani and Matthew Stephens, and trainers Michelle Knapp, Sonia Rodriguez, Sonia Saakian and Tracy Pendergast - Mesisca.

Essentially, you had to be an outsider to the fractious, nonetheless tightly knit group of artists in Manhattan who argued and drank together and who played their work off against one another.

Indeed, The London Group itself, and its century of cooperation among artists, can be seen as a tightly knit group; a polychromatic tapestry of people, styles and technologies — a mesh.

After finishing school, Saye went on to study at the University for the Creative Arts, where she was part of a tightly knit group of four women who lived and created together.

I work every day in a tightly knit group, led by my experienced business partner.

Not exact matches

They live in tightly knit social groups, have complex relationships, communicate with each other using language - like vocalizations, and even have regional dialects.

One thing that you may not have accounted for is that younger people tend to maintain a tightly - knit group of friends.

First came Martin Scorsese's Oscar - scooping epic The Departed, then Ben Affleck chipped in with The Town, both movies driven by their portrayal of tightly - knit groups of characters immovably rooted in their native Bostonian soil.

Even the most tightly - knit improv groups can unravel when a nationally - broadcast sketch show beckons.

Once the movie gets through explaining the rules of improv with a borderline - embarrassing wide - eyed earnestness, it settles into an exploration of what happens when one person from a tightly knit six - member comedy group gets close to a plum spot on Saturday Night Live (it's called Weekend Live, presumably for permission to speak freely, but the differences pretty much end with the name).

In describing his small portraits, the catalogue entry remarks that «here, color, form and composition are tightly knit together in a dazzling display of painterly bravura, forming a small group of extremely rare works that remain some of the highlights of the last one hundred years of painting.»

This often meant a «disparate collective made up of two or three tightly - knit groups.»

It is perhaps not surprising that the tightly - knit player community of EVE Online has proved the perfect group for implementing «citizen science».

Jony's ID group has become a tightly knit team, as many of them have worked together for decades.