11.   We dressed Sinatra, doing up our paisley Brooks Brothers ties into Windsor knots.

12.   Your computer ties into that group of networks when it is connected to the Web.

13.   A dispute over Taiwan in May pitched Sino-U.S. ties into a free fall.

14.   Caribbean and Latin American nations are breaking new diplomatic ground for themselves by establishing ties into Eastern Europe, Asia and southern Africa.

15.   Critics say the tycoons have parlayed their political ties into sweetheart deals with the government, which has previously sold off many state enterprises at bargain-basement prices.

16.   First-year teams never have much scoring, but a stingy goalie can transform losses into ties, ties into wins.

17.   Medvedev and Poliakov had to win to take the tie into the third day.

18.   Slovakia and France split the singles in their blue group match, sending their tie into a deciding doubles.