A generation whose parents laughed awkwardly at John Cleese in "Fawlty Towers," a television comedy, shouting "Don't mention the war!" at bemused German hotel guests is, he suggests, "simply getting bored by clichés".Although old resentments are periodically revived by football clashes, they are not enough to override the growing affinities between the two countries.
Aid-in-dying has ideological affinities with other issues where personal autonomy and liberty are at stake same-sex marriage, for instake same-sexomarriageght to an abortion.
The cultural affinities between Britain and the United States have been complicated since Churchill's time by everything from demography to changing intellectual fashions.
Paul DiNardo, a technology specialist at Credit Suisse First Boston, an investment bank, likes to picture this industry as a galaxy with two dominant stars, Microsoft and IBM, each orbited by large and small planets—other firms with which they have technological affinities.
Or will it turn out that our paeans to non-violence were just cynical tactics in an amoral international power contest staged by militaristic Israeli and American right-wing groups whose elective affinities lead them to shape a common narrative of the alien Arab/Muslim threat?
Mesrine zips in and out of jail, commits crimes when he feels like it (which is often) and dates a series of kittenish prostitutes who lick his neck or abet his robberies, depending on their affinities.
Since antibodies have specific affinities to particular proteins, any nanoshells covered in antibodies to those proteins found almost exclusively on the surfaces of tumour cells will stick to those cells and no others.
It came as both Greeks and Russians were celebrating Holy Week ahead of Orthodox Easter, a moment when religious and cultural affinities resonate.
"No sooner has he set foot in this old and noble country than he detects a multitude of natural affinities between your people and our own.
Even today, with that ideological kinship gone, "a crude mixture of anti-Americanism and a bizarre romanticisation of Russo-German affinities" persists, says Heinrich August Winkler, a historian with an interest in Germany's ambivalent integration into the West.In theory reunification in 1990 anchored all of Germany firmly in the West, as defined by NATO, the European Union and shared values.
A Western diplomat in Pakistan ventures that Karachi could even descend into "civil war".Containing the violence is proving hard because of the ethnic affinities of Karachi's main political groups.
