Franz and Sunny also share close ties to their families, which complicates matters.
The presidential front-runners from both parties, who share close ties to New York, home of the busiest subway in the U.S., have found rare agreement that repairs are desperately needed, and that mass transit is crucial to the economy.
As discussed by both this book and "Mr. S," a serve-and-tell memoir by Sinatra's longtime valet, the two shared close ties, mutual friendship with the godfatherly Sam Giancana and disastrous involvement in the Cal-Neva Lodge, the Lake Tahoe hideaway with mob connections.
Other top thinktanks in Washington have also drawn criticism for receiving funding from the UAE and sharing close ties the ambassador to the UAE, Yousef al-Otaiba, who has cultivated a reputation as an influential figure inside the nation's capital.
Sharing close ties with university education, the academical costumes by its gradation, is used to indicate the social hierarchy, academic disciplines, faculty or department of wearers.
Bartholomew, with whom Francis is said to share close personal ties, was last year also the first Orthodox patriarch to attend a papal inaugural mass since the split between the churches almost 1,000 years ago.
Before the Syria crisis, the two countries shared reasonably close ties, anchored in energy interests.
Both shared a close tie with the United States, particularly the Philippines, and both faced incipient communist insurgencies against their own governments.
Mr. Taubman remembers his fateful recommendation not to publish as "an agonizing one". He dismisses any role played by his relationships with members of the Bush administration, including Condoleezza Rice, with whom he shares longstanding and close ties to Stanford University (where they both now teach).
Russia shares close political ties with Serbia.
The U.S. and Canada share close cultural and economic ties, and we often face similar economic challenges.
