Sentence examples for forging a close from inspiring English sources

Mr. Blair, who enjoyed a warm friendship with Bill Clinton, has surprised many by forging a close relationship with George W. Bush.

It has been forging a close alliance with the green-minded Centre Party witness a decision in February to start shutting down Sweden's nuclear power plants, which provide half the country's electricity.

Only after a monetary crisis and two devaluations did Mr. Mitterrand change course, forging a close alliance with Mr. Kohl based partly on French support for the deployment of U.S. nuclear missiles in Germany to counter Soviet rockets.

But Mr. Chavez has staked out an independent foreign policy -- forging a close friendship with Fidel Castro of Cuba, for instance, and praising Libya as a model of "participatory democracy".

Not to be left out, Liberty Life, the third-biggest life assurer, is forging a close alliance with Standard Bank, Africa's largest banking group.The big retail banks hope that tie-ups with insurers will help them to spread the burden of their costly branch networks they spend a hefty 65 rand for every 100 rand of income on average and to boost income.

Though she writes of forging a close bond based on religious faith with one of them, Marc Gonsalves, she also expresses disdain for what she considers the rank materialism of another, Keith Stansell, an ex-Marine who in turn last year called her "the most disgusting human being I've ever encountered" because she supposedly sought and got favored treatment from the FARC.

"I'm forging a closer connection to what is happening there," he says.

They began forging a closer relationship last year on a visit to the Romney family's lakeside home in New Hampshire, aides said, and during debates this year when Mr. Pawlenty often traveled with the Romney campaign after dropping out of the race himself.

The company is forging a closer relationship with BMC Software, which makes network management products that compete with the likes of IBM and Computer Associates.

But gradually the two forged a close bond.

Like Ponti and Mollino, he forged a close rapport with the artisans who made his products.