I have often wondered in retrospect how smart it was for an organization like ours to become so closely affiliated with a political system that has proven so fragile over time.
He said those who had won were not so strongly affiliated with the party as to be unacceptable.
By its estimate, three or four were members of the Afghan government forces, another twenty or so were affiliated with the Taliban, and about eighty belonged to neither force.
It is a turning away from an arguably aristocratic idea of the intrinsic worth of things: from pleasure, with its sense of an internal condition of mind, to fun, so closely affiliated with outward activities; from excellence, an inner trait whose attainment is its own reward, to achievement, which comes through slogging and recognition.
Seven time zones west, in Astoria, twenty-five or so loosely affiliated activists — among them Muslims, Christians, and secular Egyptians, many of them fresh from a hastily assembled anti-Mubarak demonstration in Jersey City — spent a couple of early-evening hours at the El Karnak restaurant, on Steinway Street, pondering what they might do collectively.
Analysts say that because major banks that deal derivatives are so closely affiliated with ICE, they could seek to have many of the products classified as "customized" — the only category that would keep them off regulators' radar screens under Mr. Geithner's proposal.
Outside the venue there was a contingent of 20 or so loosely affiliated people demonstrating the event.
Because they are so closely affiliated with their traditional show ring competition, they are sometimes mistaken for warmbloods or Thoroughbred crosses when participating in other equine events.
So does everyone affiliated with the Yankees.
