The phrase "a close tie to" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a close or strong connection between two entities. For example, "The company has a close tie to the local community."
Michele's father worked as a technician at Alitalia, but his passions lay elsewhere: he sculpted and wrote, and he felt a close tie to nature.
Insofar as the sections of the Act here relevant are concerned, §§ 201(b)(2) and (c), Congress prohibited discrimination only in those establishments having a close tie to interstate commerce, i.e., those, like the McClungs', serving food that has come from out of the State.
"We build a close tie to what these researchers are doing and provide our own expertise," he says.
If you don't have any alternatives left, find a postdoc with a close tie to industry, or even an industry postdoc, that gives you marketable experiences for the development niche of your choice.
According to Coviello, ensuring that key data are protected by a close tie to the management layer of a data center is not something a security company can do on its own but only in conjunction with a larger provider of software and services for the network.
"I think it's more of an appreciation for personal lives and a close tie to family in the culture that keeps people from giving their all to projects and ideas". She adds that though she is the resident journalist in her company, she's had to learn accounting, business development, marketing and even a little bit about website development.
Corporations can get involved through gift funding to support the world-class and transformational research conducted at Stanford, and build a closer tie to Stanford over general areas of research interest.
"Kissinger has a very, very close tie to the establishment," Mr. Nixon said.
"We are uncomfortable with the establishment within AAAS of a program with close ties to a religious organization," the physicists wrote to AAAS council officers in December.
With a young, educated workforce and a history of close ties to the U.S., the Philippines seemed like a better fit.
Several top-tier Republican presidential candidates will travel to Southern California this weekend for a gathering hosted by a nonprofit with close ties to the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.
