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Guterres, who was formerly the UN high commissioner for refugees, also had implicit criticism for other western countries that have increasingly closed their doors to the vast numbers of refugees seeking safe haven around the world, and compared them unfavourably to poorer countries who host the overwhelming bulk of them.

Samuel Heilman, a professor of sociology and Jewish studies at the City University of New York and an author of a 1992 book about the haredim called "Defenders of the Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry," said that the walls in the haredi world have increasingly closed in recent decades as Jews of all stripes have been able to navigate freely in all sectors of American society.

Though much fluidity remains, U.S. officials have increasingly closed off the border following recurring waves of mass migration from Mexico that began the 1980s and lasted through the early 2000s.

Somaliland, another neighbour, has increasingly close trade links with Djibouti.

After 1994, the ruling party has increasingly close links to mining and other corporations, with several top members being deployed to businesses through state rules on black ownership of companies.

Saudi Arabia, the quintessential Sunni country and home to Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina, sits across from Iran on the other side of the Persian Gulf, and prior to the Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 had increasingly close strategic relations with Iran.

"We have increasingly developed close relations between ourselves and Yemen," Mr. Cheney said.

Although many associations were established as independent groups, universities have increasingly pulled them closer.

We have increasingly brought influencers closer in to truly co-create ideas with the agency (and clients).

So it is alarmed that peasants living close to cities have increasingly been behaving as if the land is theirs anyway.

Raccoons have increasingly become peridomestic animals living in close proximity to human residences.