Sentence examples for established close links from inspiring English sources

Under Dingiswayo, Mthethwa established close links with the Zulu chieftaincy to its west.

The nearby Mthethwa confederacy, under its leader, Dingiswayo (reigned 1809 17), had established close links with the Zulu.

An advocate of liberation theology, he established close links with Subcomandante Marcos, who in 1994 launched the Zapatista uprising in San Cristóbal in defence of Indian rights.

It established close links with eastern Europe, and this led to later allegations that it was really a front to raise funds for the Communist party.

Arrests on December 2nd highlighted a gang that has established close links with local officials and politicians of left and right.

The 59-year-old who lives in considerable luxury on the Spanish Costa del Sol is aid to have established close links with south American drug gangs as well as those elsewhere in Europe as well as with some Asian drug suppliers.

Smolensk, Polotsk, and Pskov became increasingly involved in trade along western land routes, while Galicia and Volhynia established closer links with Poland and Hungary.

Businessmen have established closer links to the government and the party to get access to state bank loans and tap into the network of officials who control land and government contracts.

He established closer links with Norway and Denmark, confirmed by marriage alliances: his daughter, Rikissa, in 1251 married the Norwegian heir apparent, and in 1261 he himself married Mechthild, widow of the Danish king Abel.

Successful policies can only be formulated by establishing close links with, for example, urban planning and municipal policies.

In the second part of a series looking ahead at the centenary of the start of World War I, reporter Roger Pinney found a community in Flanders keen to establish close links with Wales.