Seeking to associate his government with a rare feel-good moment, Mr. Maliki pointedly noted the contrast between Iraq's past and present sporting fortunes.
Lula and Ms Rousseff, a former Trotskyist who is sometimes touted as a potential presidential candidate for the ruling Workers Partyy, were keen to associate the government with Petrobras's strike.
Meanwhile, many of Saturday's conservative protestors associate government programs such as the Bolsa Família, which distributes cash benefits to the poorest Brazilian families, with the radical left agendas of Cuba and Venezuela.
However, environmental concerns such as CO2 emissions and associate government policies such as carbon tax have resulted in unprecedented growth of renewable energy sources.
Power's reluctance to associate the U.S. government with a UN concept was understandable.
Americans tend to associate "propaganda" with government obfuscation, but any public or private institution, as well as any individual, can engage in campaigns of manipulation.
With such a record, to protest at Trump's red carpet treatment might be seen as an act of basic political hygiene: we do not want our government to associate with, nor give international support to, such a man and the politics he represents.
The crucifix and the way it has been displayed, he said, were a deliberate attempt by the Italian government to associate itself with an important religious symbol.
The group is spearheaded by the legal team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and one of their chief arguments asserts that the NSA programme violates the right to associate privately, free from government interference – something that's supposed to be protected by the First Amendment.
In the Commons the Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, said that Britain recognised only one republic of Cyprus and had urged the Ankara government not to associate itself with the Turkish Cypriot move.
