Sentence examples for bonds that keep from inspiring English sources

Political analysts say the government will have a difficult job satisfying them without loosening the political bonds that keep Spain a unified nation, not only at the Olympics.

As in The Godfather films, which depicted the influence of padrini in the Sicilian mafia, ties of blood, marriage and godparents help weave the tight, clannish bonds that keep the 'Ndrangheta almost impenetrable to outsiders.

Grindley's vivid portrayal of Lydia's hardships and the bonds that keep her family together offers a thought-provoking experience to older readers who want to open their eyes to a wider world.

The thinking is that these peptides hinder the intermolecular bonds that keep clumps together.

What good is it to find our place in the world if doing so destroys the bonds that keep us together?

These tentative bonds that keep us hopelessly anchored together.

My theory is that the e- prefix no longer felt like such a transparent abbreviation of electronic, allowing e-mail to cast off the bonds that kept it close to mail of the snail variety.

She filmed the jumpers over four years, recording the bonds that kept them together, despite numerous difficulties (Jerome's A.C.L. surgery is graphically depicted), and countless fallings-out and tender reconciliations.

The impact of LSD was to diminish connections within each of these networks, relaxing the bonds that kept them intact and distinct, while increasing the cross-talk among them.

In Bradley's view, Summers's mission has been "to purge Harvard of the bonds that kept it from realizing its enormous potential and seeing itself in a new way -- his new way.

One of the latest pieces in "The Essential Tagore" is an essay called "Travel," from 1939, two years before his death, in which Tagore explains the lifelong restlessness that drove him from home to home and continent to continent: "I must leave the bonds that kept me confined, and move elsewhere.