1.   Equally, the state has helped to maintain the structure of capital Markets which promote closer relations between financial and industrial capital.

2.   He was a vocal opponent of closer relations with the United States.

3.   The new government also favoured closer relations with the United States, which maintained NATO naval bases in Iceland.

4.   Some of the first Americans to urge a tougher anti-Soviet stance were also quick to see closer relations with Britain as an obvious corollary.

5.   Another issue is the possibility of closer relations between Russia and an expanding NATO alliance.

6.   A similar shift in public attitudes has provided a broad base of popular support for closer relations between Turkey and Greece.

7.   After all, Yamamoto is a delicately ethereal designer who has made a career of crafting avant-garde designs that bear a closer relation to sculpture than to workaday clothes.

8.   Bush properly has turned down the fire under closer relations with Pyongyang that the Clinton administration had taken close to the boil.

9.   But McBrien said Law has always enjoyed closer relations to senior church officials at the Vatican than with the conference of US bishops.

10.   But Republicans have been pushing for closer relations with Taipei, angering Beijing.