1.   Because the government abandoned any formal incomes policy there was less call for it to maintain close relations with union leaders.

2.   If the answer is entry barriers, this again demonstrates the close relation between industrial policy and competition policy.

3.   Many have spent years establishing close working relations with officials in Guangdong, Fujian and Hainan Island.

4.   Social systems evolve in close relation to ecology.

5.   The people who had saved my life were my close relations!

6.   This would not preclude close working relations between purchasers and providers working closely to improve quality.

7.   The union has close relations with the Labour Party.

8.   Ostensibly, Egypt enjoyed close relations with Iraq, both sharing membership of the Arab Co-operation Council along with Yemen and Jordan.

9.   Whereas Egypt and Saudi Arabia constituted the Arab backbone of the anti-Iraq coalition, Jordan had, by necessity, maintained close relations with Iraq.