Gmail is firmly tied into Google's other services, and it's far more mature.
Learning and intellectual performance are firmly tied to the body's internal time.
Most of Mrs. Merkel's postwar predecessors rightly believed that Germany's economic prosperity was firmly tied to the European Union and its military security tied to NATO.
Ferber's characters are firmly tied to the land, and they experience conflicts between their traditions and new, more dynamic trends.
"The acrobat should not fall, implies Greenspan, but the safety net has been taken out, fully checked, and has been firmly tied in place".
When she's a teenager, the father of the kids for whom she baby-sits seduces her, and his desire is firmly tied to her silence.
Under intense questioning by MPs during a two-hour session, the former governor of the Bank of Canada repeatedly stressed that the Bank is firmly tied to its key target of keeping inflation at 2%.
("It's October," I said, "why do you need three pairs of shorts?") The laces, of course, had been firmly tied and knotted in all his lace-up shoes.
Hobby said the school funding dilemma was unlikely to change no matter who won May's general election: "I think the hands of the next government are firmly tied.
Caroline Chung Simpson, an associate professor of English at the University of Washington, said: "I think Ichiro's appeal to most Asian-Americans I know is firmly tied to his having proven the stereotypes about Asian men wrong.
Whatever happens, it appears certain that the future of organizations like Wikileaks are firmly tied to the future of the web and whether social media evolves to become the web itself.
