Sentence examples for forging a closer from inspiring English sources

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

Advocates of an exit say that Greece would gain from a cheaper currency, and that the politics of forging a closer fiscal and financial union between the euro zone's remaining members would be easier without a country that should never have joined in the first place.

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 project was bitterly criticized by Polish politicians, who accused Germany of going behind the backs of its Eastern European neighbors by forging a closer energy alliance with Russia and making Germany in particular and Europe in general more dependent on Russian gas.

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.

At a time in which much of Europe still confronts relatively weak economic prospects -- with unemployment stuck at depression levels in Spain and joblessness among young people a scourge nearly everywhere -- the conversation centers more on hanging on and digging out than forging a closer union.

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

Mr. Casey, a former lawyer, author of business texts and chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, served as Mr. Reagan's campaign director in 1980, forging a close friendship.

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.

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