1.   Community colleges also tend to have stronger ties to businesses than do either high schools or four-year institutions.

2.   Glasgow had close ties of blood and interest with the Southern States of the Confederacy.

3.   Hofmann, especially, has strong ties to the East Bay, having lived his entire life there.

4.   In studying their alumni fund-raising campaigns, administrators found female graduates had fewer ties to their alma maters.

5.   The army had strong ties with the agricultural population through the system of conscription.

6.   The Minister of Culture had strong ties with the Academy and determined its funding.

7.   The US has close ties with the Saudi monarchy.

8.   They had many ties in the larger organization, friends and past coworkers from whom they could seek support and companionship.

9.   They have strong ties to institutions of higher learning.

10.   Athens had strong ties to the Arab world.