Now the city Education Department must tie all teacher incentives to student achievement.
''You must tie it to some value-added service'' like golf, he said.
Workers picking at the debris must tie handkerchiefs over their faces, like outlaws in a Western.
So we must tie funding to higher standards and accountability for results.
When we speak of America's future, I believe we must tie it irrevocably to the future of freedom throughout the world.
Whenever somebody makes a promise, or an oath, they must tie a knot with whoever they are making the promise to.
"Sometimes I feel that physicists, like Odysseus, must tie themselves to the mast of the ship so they are not seduced by the sirens of mathematics".
Freud once warned off a prospective biographer, writing, "To be a biographer you must tie yourself up in lies, concealments, hypocrisies, false colorings, and even in hiding a lack of understanding, for biographical truth is not to be had".
While it is true that in the short term he is worried that premature austerity is the greatest danger, he thinks that too much government debt matters as well: "To restore confidence in the federal government without undermining the recovery, we must tie current deficits to binding measures that will close the budget gap and stabilize the national debt in the near future".
Our runner-up this year is 29-year-old Seokhan Jung for his elegiac memoir Back Soon, which begins with the funeral of its narrator's grandfather in Korea, on a day so snowy the mourners must tie straw ropes around their shoes if they are to clamber to the mountain grave.
It must tie into our need to communicate, exchange information or solve a common problem.
