These islands have a long history of involvement in international empire, trade and finance, we are often assured, so advancing globalisation and a more closely connected world must be our friend – whether the UK coheres or disaggregates, so this argument goes, a more closely connected world is bound to be our oyster.
Elements more closely connected with domestic ritual are introduced here.
"In summary, we find that the world is more closely connected than you might think".
Despite the global economic crisis, financial markets are now more closely connected then ever before.
He feels unbound this way, running for the joy of it, more closely connected with God.
And on the Meadowbrook Parkway, Ms. Lucarello said, she feels more closely connected to her own brush with death.
He noted that many were watching how the United States responded because economies were "more closely connected than ever before".
Most are abstract, and many are more closely connected to Mr. Edwards's sculpture than might at first be apparent.
But they largely agree that constituents feel more closely connected to their locally elected council members and that town government has become more responsive to residents.
The program includes a quotation from the German poet Novalis: "We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible".
"The problem is, if you license out your technology, someone else is making it and they're more closely connected with the customer," Mr. Lackritz said.
