Sentence examples for perceived closeness from inspiring English sources

Nicolas Sarkozy, the incumbent, is unpopular partly because of his perceived closeness to fat cats.

Many of Blair's political problems – and the determination of the new Conservative mayor to oust him – came from his perceived closeness to New Labour.

Anger has also mounted over the perceived closeness of governments to industrial lobbies, and because several developed countries have reneged on their commitments to cut emissions.

The perceived closeness of an electoral contest and the degree of ideological polarization between parties or candidates can affect the competitiveness of the election and consequently its turnout.

"Where centre-right and centre-left agree, we should say so," he said, dismissing fears that perceived closeness with the Tories could damage Labour electorally in a similar way to the aftermath of the Scottish referendum.

Carmody's perceived closeness with the government came from his stint as chief magistrate, during which he urged colleagues to deny "bikie" defendants bail during the government's gang crackdown, then directed all bikie bail applications be heard in his Brisbane court.

Many perceived a closeness back in 2002 between Britain's then defence secretary Geoff Hoon and his larger-than-life US equivalent Donald "known unknowns" Rumsfeld.

Stressing the benefits of CS sometimes helped care providers deal with this perceived causal closeness.

Studies have revealed an association between polymorphic microsatellites RS1 and RS3 and measures of perceived power, closeness and conflict between siblings (Bachner-Melman, 2005).

Presence is related to the theoretical concept of transactional distance or the degree of separation in understanding amongst teachers and students and their perceived interpersonal closeness [ 3- 5].

A nine-item scale developed by Chen and Peng (2008) was used to measure employee perceived work relationship closeness.