Think Apple's Mail client tied to, say, an exchange account.
The Kickstand means I can use it as a go-anywhere Plex client tied to my home media center collection, without wires, without accessories, and without even having to devise some kind of propping apparatus using pillows, hangars or whatever else I might have at hand.
Most surprising was that even meeting the target for economic growth paled in importance next to patron-client ties.
Social differences between the Hutu and Tutsi traditionally were profound, as shown by the system of patron-client ties (buhake, or "cattle contract") through which the Tutsi, with a strong pastoralist tradition, gained social, economic, and political ascendancy over the Hutu, who were primarily agriculturalists.
Cheng Li, a scholar of Chinese politics at the Brookings Institution, wrote in a paper published in September that the Chinese political system was one of "weak leaders, strong factions," and that it suffered from "nepotism and patron-client ties in the selection of leaders".
More importantly, given the deep legitimacy crisis facing communist rule and the growing public resentment of nepotism and patron-client ties in the selection of leaders, the authorities should adopt more mechanisms for intra-party elections.
Mr. Simels was picked, in part, because he had no clients tied to organized crime, and representing Mr. Hill, whose life was the basis of the film "Goodfellas," meant he never would.
She runs her own business, Factotum Inc., doing a little bit of everything for a variety of oddball clients — tying the shoes of a man with a bad back, typing lectures for a professor and keeping him in Guinness and single malt, "goldfish maintenance" for a pair of octogenarian spinsters.
Investigators have also been probing the money Flynn received from clients tied to foreign governments, including Russia, according to CNN. .
Green has represented clients tied to the Whitewater and Iran-Contra investigations, according to the Sidley Austin website.
