Sentence examples for close to organized. from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gephardt, who is close to organized labor, has broken with the leadership council on trade and other matters.

He was especially close to organized labor; one of his best friends was Ed Pulver, the late president of the Hudson County Central Labor Council.

Durbin, who is close to organized labor, has argued for years in favor of the visas but with more stringent rules, including tougher provisions to insure that the companies try to find qualified Americans first.

The relationship with Mr. Kerik's best man, Mr. Ray, served only to deepen suspicions that the DiTommasos were too close to organized crime figures.

Mr. Calderón had put much stock in his plan to clean up local police forces, which are seen as particularly close to organized crime groups, by bringing them under the control of state governors.

Mr. Ray also introduced Mr. Kerik to Frank DiTommaso, the owner of a construction company that had long battled allegations that it was too close to organized crime figures.

Because of the growing threat of war, administration officials said today that they were close to organizing a voluntary departure of dependents and nonemergency staff from the American Embassy in New Delhi, and were considering issuing a stepped-up warning to about 60,000 other Americans in India to leave on their own.

As the political scientist John Mueller has pointed out, today's civil wars are closer to organized crime than traditional war.

A leading California Democrat with close ties to organized labor asked Mr. Bush to order a cooling-off period because of growing concern over economic damage to their state.

Their effort, he said, has been especially helpful in the campaign to sway Democrats, whose party has close ties to organized labor.

Asked about her expertise in examining privatizations of major public assets, she pointed to her close ties to organized labor and her role as one of the officials involved in the state's recent move to allow the American International Group access to $20 billion of capital from its subsidiaries, a day before the embattled insurer received a federal bailout.