Sentence examples for evident ties from inspiring English sources

The Italian system involved huge bribes or kickbacks on every public contract in northern Italy, and the purchase of votes in the south through the delivery of money to well-placed "friends," some of them with evident ties to the Mafia.

Back then nothing evident tied the illegal moves of the Enron unit in Valhalla, N.Y.

And like most people who challenge the established order in today's Russia, Savchuk and the others are jousting against a nebulous entity with apparent Kremlin ties and evident protection from government and law-enforcement agencies.

Spousal networks were also denser where density refers to the numbers of ties evident divided by the number of possible ties and less centralised than the networks of people without a spouse [ 39].

Yet the ties are evident.

Officially, Mr. Cuomo has no connection to the committee, but his ties are evident, and he has been fully apprised of the group's progress, executives said.

Hiding in the kitchen notwithstanding, their family ties are evident in Brother, a selection of poems from their previous books, collected here for the first time.

But the recent sharp deterioration in ties was evident in January when Thailand's Foreign Ministry summoned the top US diplomat in Bangkok to register displeasure over the State Department's critical comments about the country's military rule.

The close community ties were evident one recent day when Donna L. Kenney, an inspector accompanying Mr. Bowen, ran into an oil company worker, Lee Slaugh, who is also a friend.

President Wilson's ties are evident to this day in Carlisle.

The timing of the announcement, which was approved by Hillary Clinton, will surprise some observers, given Washington's evident desire to improve diplomatic ties with Islamabad before next month's Nato summit in Chicago where the west's long-term role in Afghanistan is due to be thrashed out.