Sentence examples for powerful ties from inspiring English sources

Some Guyanese people, describing their foreclosures linked to Mr. Ahmad's services, said they were so terrified by his powerful ties that they did not want their names publicized.

Ghanaians, as well as Nigerians, Ivoirians and many other West Africans, come from lands with powerful ties to tribe, clan and family.

In 2001, while Mr. O'Neal battled a raft of chief executive candidates, he relied heavily on the support of Mr. Patrick, who drew on powerful ties with the Merrill board to go behind Mr. Komansky's back and advance Mr. O'Neal's cause.

When posterity indicts our era, this will be the feeble answer for why we did so little – that the rich and powerful with ties to the carbon-emitting industries have done everything in their power to prevent action on, or even recognition of, the problem.

HCA has a dynamic history and powerful political ties.

Now it is a technologically advanced democracy with cultural clout and powerful economic ties across the region.

Leading siloviki have their own powerful business ties, including to state-owned arms and oil firms.Yet to raise the alarm about the siloviki themselves partly misses the point.

Genghis Khan started his victorious career as a solitary fugitive, and his first followers were men who, like himself, lacked any powerful kindred ties because their clans had met with ill fortune in war.

The FBI alleges that the accused spies were able to get close to a scientist working with "bunker-buster" nuclear bombs and a New York financier with powerful political ties.

But as No Child Left Behind awaits Congressional reauthorization, the tutoring industry is energetically pushing federal policy makers to preserve public financing for tutoring, either in the updated law or other legislation — lobbying efforts expected to be duplicated at the state level in Texas, where over the years tutoring companies have cultivated powerful political ties.

Some will be relieved that it does not require him to reveal the powerful political ties that enabled him to run his drug trafficking empire unhindered from the Tivoli Gardens neighbourhood of the capital, Kingston, until the government finally bowed to US pressure last year and sent the police and army in to arrest him.