1.   As with most matters pertaining to the Internet, a loose affiliation of thousands of computer networks around the world, there is no central authority.

2.   Hackers have always tended to share information and work in loose affiliation, Power said.

3.   Since then many companies and loose affiliations of programmers have released Gnutella software.

4.   The military regime, in concert with a loose affiliation of street fighters, has overseen the imprisonment, rape, torture and murder of hundreds of Aristide supporters.

5.   They can be close-knit corporations that pay their doctors a salary, loose affiliations of independent practitioners, or something in-between.

6.   The drug business has helped make them independent, but they retain a loose affiliation with politicians that, Lemahieu suggested, might hamper interdiction.

7.   There are no political parties in Iran, only loose affiliations that polarize anti-Western radicals and more moderate pragmatists.