The N.F.L.'s complex tie-breaking system further complicates the picture.
Shares in the engineering software maker Aveva have fallen by more than a third after it scrapped a complex tie-up with France's Schneider Electric that would have reduced the UK company's exposure to troubled oil and gas markets.
One Georgetown family had more complex ties to the South.
Mr. von Trier, who is Danish, has long and complex ties to Germany.
The result was a useful, well-informed set of discussions that sheds light on these complex ties and future prospects.
The four major commanders at the Battle of Mill Springs each reveal complex ties of loyalty, region and ethnicity.
Always sensitive to the literary qualities of Libanius's work, Cribiore reveals the complex ties that bound religion and cultural production in late antiquity.
It will also study the feasibility of building a baseball stadium in downtown Buffalo and a multipurpose sports complex tied to the State University branch in Albany.
The administration has not yet developed its plan, and Mr. Bloomberg said yesterday that finding a solution is complex, tied as it is to many different government entities and to advertising revenue.
Another view is that Hoover was obsessed with publicity, and he knew that the mafia, with its complex ties to politics and the police, would not give him the headline-grabbing victories that he desired.
Nor did fascism succeed in transforming a society with powerful and complex ties of patronage and loyalty to the monarchy, the church, and, above all, the family—"whose cast was as frequently local as it was Italian, let alone fascist".
