Throughout his campaign so far Goldsmith has been eager to associate himself with his fellow Tory Boris Johnson, whose two mayoral election wins owed much to the backing of Outer Londoners.
That so many marketers are eager to associate themselves with football is producing a problem: games overflowing with commercials.
Mr. Blue seemed eager to associate Dry Cell with Linkin Park, even though that band had moved away from him after the success of "Hybrid Theory".
And the party seems eager to associate itself not merely with a role of hers but also with who she is -- not the Terminator but the Schwarzenegger.
Many Republicans have been very eager to associate themselves with Tea Party followers, hoping to tap into the movement's deep enthusiasm.
Mrs. Clinton implied that the Daily News article was prompted by the Republicans, suggesting that they would be eager to associate a prominent Democrat with the Muslim organizations at the time the groups were endorsing Mr. Bush.
In a debate last October, Mr. Gore seemed so eager to associate himself with Mr. Witt he erroneously claimed to have toured a Texas fire site with him in 1996.
For starters, they said, the tax and budget plan that Congress is now completing, with Mr. Bush's approval, does not provide enough money to meet the spending commitments in the education bill that the president is eager to associate himself with.
Maher said the Lunch Pail Republicans have further fundraising plans in place, even though neither the GOP candidates nor the unions seem eager to associate with them.
The artist, famous for her mammoth sculptures of spiders, pointedly leaves herself out of the list, insinuating not a rejection of the -ism, necessarily, but perhaps a bit of condescension toward critics eager to associate her with the term, no matter her opinions.
