Sentence examples for had close connection from inspiring English sources

Then why is it that Iranians and Iranian-Americans are being targeted by this HR 158, while countries that seem to have had close connection to terror attacks are given a proverbial pass?

Chūgan's student Gidō Shūshin had close connection with the Court and Ashikaga Shogunate and propagated Du Fu's poetry in the mundane world; one day Nijō Yoshimoto, the Kampaku regent of the Court and the highest authority of renga poetry, asked Gidō, "Should I learn the poetry of Du Fu and Li Bai?" Gidō dared to reply, "Yes if you do have enough capability.

In 1988, at the age of 17, he joined Datek Securities, where his father had close connections.

Calabria and Malta, where the artist spent the last 38 years of his life, have always had close connections.

The Reddy family, which had close connections to the state's BJP-led government, appeared to rule the roost.

Or Sparta may have been worried about the ambitions of Argos, with which certain tyrants, like the Athenian, had close connections.

"Manu has had close connections to the club from a very young age and is a big part of the family here.

Arbogast treacherously proclaimed as emperor of the West a former rhetoric teacher, Eugenius, who had close connections with the pagan aristocracy of the Senate.

Mr. Rodriguez had close connections to Enrique Prado, a career C.I.A. operations officer who had recently left the agency to become a senior executive at Blackwater.

In the past he has had a string of detectives on his payroll and has had close connections with the notorious Adams family, the powerful London gangsters.

He said the "vultures of Riyadh" had close connections with militant Salafis and would only increase their antagonism with Iran and Iraq's Shia population.