The phrase "more closely identify" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to identify or recognize something in a more detailed or accurate way. Example: In order to understand the complex issues at hand, we need to more closely identify and analyze the root causes of the problem.
But this survey, consistent with Gallup polling illustrating a center-right electorate, suggests that voters more closely identify with the overarching Republican message of an opportunity society over the Democratic message centered on economic security.
When one such group is threatened, however, this identity becomes more salient and many individuals will more closely identify with it [37].
BC may more closely identify the sources of PM than standard measures of mass concentration.
This approach might promote the realism of the vignette and allow study participants to more closely identify with the content of the vignette.
Furthermore, the brevity in training allows researchers to more closely identify the time frame in which acquisition took place, which is difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain with multiple-day Morris water maze tasks.
But Patten, who is also chancellor of Oxford University, is more closely identified with traditional media.
And because he carried the top title, Mr. Levy was becoming more closely identified with the company's success.
For four hundred years, no art form has been more closely identified with Western culture than opera.
Mr. Chavez is also more closely identified with the masses in terms of the ethnic or racial divide that characterizes Venezuela.
Nor was it clear that the shareholders could quickly replace A.I.G.'s current board with a new one that more closely identified with their interests.
A case in point is an actor who could not be more closely identified with art house material, the Ingmar Bergman regular Max von Sydow.
