I see my family and friends often, but there's something about everybody living within a two-mile radius of each other that cements a bond that cannot be broken.
Most people can recall the first moments of magic that cemented a bond with a particular team — and to abandon that for various expediencies is far more disreputable than rooting for the wrong uniform.
Soon after, the group were signing a megabucks deal with Adidas and cementing a bond between hip-hop and sneaker cultures that remains as durable as the shelltoes on their beloved Superstars.
Indeed it is not uncommon at the end of a curtain call for the actors, before they depart the stage, to reach out their hands, stretching towards us, to applaud us, in mutual admiration, cementing a bond.
Twenty years ago, a friendship between two women of different cultures and backgrounds cemented, and a bond was formed to create a women's development organization -- to empower women -- throughout Latin America.
By bringing a military man to the White House, Mr. Obama may be trying to cement an early bond with military leaders who regard him with some uneasiness, particularly over his call for rapid troop reductions in Iraq.
Ms. Collings said the department had limited the amount of truck traffic that would carry what the $50 million plant would produce, finely ground slag that is added to Portland cement as a bonding agent.
The self-adhesive resin cement has a bonding mechanism based on micromechanical retention and chemical adhesion.
The testimony, before an eight-member panel of federal government investigators, provided a fuller portrait of workers' potentially risky decisions in the days before the disaster: not conducting a test called a "cement bond log," not using a potentially safer type of well liner, and not conducting a "bottoms-up" test of the drilling solution in the well.
BP also did not order a cement bond log, a testing procedure that would have more fully evaluated the quality of the cement barrier.
