Sentence examples for has a certain affinity with from inspiring English sources

"He has a certain affinity with the United Kingdom and I think his clipped language will serve him well in London," one of his former colleagues, Joe Hockey, said.

Other Icelandic stories based on early poetic tradition include Heiðreks saga; Hrólfs saga kraka, which has a certain affinity with the Old English poem Beowulf; Hálfs saga og Hálfsrekka; Gautreks saga; and Ásmundar saga kappabana, which tells the same story as the Old High German Hildebrandslied, that of a duel of honour between a father and a son.

By the time of Neidhart von Reuenthal, a Bavarian squire (d. c. 1250), the knight had turned his attention from the ladies of the castle to the wenches of the villages; Neidhart's melodies likewise have a certain affinity with folk song.

Its pictures of low life are perhaps the most notable things of their kind in English poetry between John Skelton and George Crabbe, with both of whom Butler has a certain affinity.

Peter F. Vallone has a certain affinity for television shows set in Queens.

But there is no denying that New York has a certain affinity for drama and struggle, survival and spectacle.

Perhaps this is why, despite Silicon Valley's veneer of liberal cosmopolitanism, it has a certain affinity for the president.

It's no secret that the fashion crowd has a certain affinity for skate style.

"Everyone has a certain affinity for the music of their youth," he added.

It merely confirms that the antibody has a certain affinity to the intended target protein.

"I enjoyed the course and always had a certain affinity to electronics.