Sentence examples for close personal links from inspiring English sources

The arrest of Storey is a significant development because of his membership of Sinn Féin and his close personal links to Adams.

Fortunately, a supplier who provided patient information systems to the NHS and who had close personal links with CancerCare was able to help.

Their opposition was articulated by a pressure group known as the United Nobility, which had numerous members in the State Council and close personal links with the imperial court.

While the former Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner maintained close, personal links with human rights associations, the new centre-right administration of Macri, who took office on 10 December, has shown less enthusiasm for activists.

Since the end of the 70s, he has returned regularly to conduct what is now Opera Australia, as well as the Sydney Symphony, and he has formed close personal links.

Through close personal links to people like Bernie Ebbers, the chairman of WorldCom; Philip Anschutz, the founder of Qwest; and Gary Winnick, the founder of Global Crossing, he helped to generate more than a billion dollars in investment-banking fees for Salomon Smith Barney.

Meanwhile, cronyism is rampant, with close personal and financial links between powerful politicians and the very companies that benefit from public largesse.

The favourites are Guto Hari, a former BBC reporter who now spins for Boris Johnson, the London mayor; Ian Birrell, a print journalist with close personal and ideological links to Mr Cameron and Steve Hilton, his strategist; and Ben Brogan, the deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph.

Given the longstanding and close economic, cultural and personal links between our country and the rest of Europe, is it really credible to believe that the other 27 EU member states will prefer to expel Catalonia than to keep us?

Some also had close personal as well as business links with the victims of aryanisation and tried as best as they safely could to protect their Jewish associates' interests.Ambitious bank employees had no such inhibitions.

Either way, the episode illustrates Manafort's personal links to figures close to Putin.