His friends were numerous and their ties to him were strong.

Autumn also has strong ties to post-season baseball, with the autumnal equinox occurring with about a week left in the regular season, depending on scheduling.

The province has strong cultural and personal ties to the Canadian Prairies and Ontario as well as to the West Coast of the United States and to Alaska and the Yukon.

There is limited natural fresh water resources ( except for a few seasonal streams and springs on Tortola, most of the islands ' water supply comes from wells and rainwater catchments ). It has strong ties to nearby US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

In addition, Burkina Faso emphasized its interest to establish strong ties with the new sovereign state.

Local public BDSM communities often have strong ties with distant BDSM communities, with popular educators traveling widely ; large events attracting attendees from wide areas ( and occasionally internationally ); popular speakers, authors, or players gaining relative celebratory status ; and websites attracting over a million members.

Prior to the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Cuba maintained strong economic and political ties to the United States.

In 725 and 728, he again entered Bavaria and the ties of lordship seemed strong.

The U. S. and Djibouti have forged strong ties in recent years.

The Dominican Republic has very strong ties and relations with Puerto Rico.

It has strong ties with database technology and DBMS products.

Some diaspora communities maintain strong political ties with their homeland.

Many of his works have similarly strong ties with classic literature:

Estonians have strong ties to the Nordic countries and Germany stemming from the strong cultural and religious influences gained over centuries during Danish, German and Swedish rule and settlement.

There are strong historical and scientific ties between ecology, environmental management, and protection.

Kent was rich, with strong trade ties to the continent and, it may be that Æthelberht instituted royal control of trade.

East Pakistan enjoyed a strong interaction, healthy relations and close cultural ties with Republic of India.

Emily Smith had strong family ties to Chelsea, which centered around the church, in which her family took an active role.

The 1948 Marshall Plan and strong cultural ties have crafted a strong bond between the two countries, although Schröder's very vocal opposition to the Iraq War suggested the end of Atlanticism and a relative cooling of German-American relations.

President Portillo pledged to maintain strong ties to the United States, further enhance Guatemala's growing cooperation with Mexico, and participate actively in the integration process in Central America and the Western Hemisphere.

Canada and Guyana have strong ties through the Commonwealth of Nations.

They were: how strong is the area as an independent centre in its own right ; how strong are its ties to London ; and how strongly is it drawn outwards towards the country rather than inwards towards London.

The music of Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias ( Spain ) and Portugal are also considered Celtic music, the tradition being particularly strong in Brittany, where Celtic festivals large and small take place throughout the year, and in Wales, where the ancient eisteddfod tradition has been revived and flourishes.

In spite of strong opposition from the Quito Audiencia, the Junta called for a congress in December 1811 and declared the entire area of the audiencia to be independent of any government currently in Spain.

A brigade of Dutch Royal Marines and Royal Marines, 1, 800 strong, under the command of Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, chief commander of the Alliance Army in Spain, began to besiege Gibraltar, in the name of the Archduke Charles.

Fragmented by the war, Spain was destabilised as different political parties representing " liberal ", " reactionary " and " moderate " groups throughout the remainder of the century fought for and won short-lived control without any being sufficiently strong to bring about lasting stability.

The thought that Spain could bring Christianity to the new world certainly played a strong role in the expansion of Spain's empire.

Twenty years after World War I was over, libertarian socialists were still strong enough to spearhead the social revolution that swept across Republican Spain in 1936 and 1937.

Later, nations with a strong maritime culture such as the United Kingdom, Holland, Denmark, Portugal and Spain were able to establish colonies on other continents.

Upon the Spaniards ' arrival to the Philippines, they were dismayed to find such a strong Muslim presence on the island, having just expelled the Moors from Spain after centuries of fighting.

In Lauda was again strong in his Ferrari ; at mid season he led the championship with 56 points whilst Hunt had only 26 despite wins in Spain ( a race from which he was initially disqualified ) and France.

In Belgium, Spain, and Italy, Bismarck exerted strong and sustained political pressure to support the election or appointment of liberal, anticlerical governments.

It has a strong but sweet flavour, and is widely used in Spain as a table olive.

While the Philippines ' relationship with the United States remains strong, the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has sought to establish closer ties to its earlier colonizer, Spain.

Earlier, there was a strong romantic nationalist element mixed with Enlightenment rationalism in the rhetoric used in British North America, in the colonists ' Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution of 1787, as well as the rhetoric in the wave of revolts, inspired by new senses of localized identities, which swept the American colonies of Spain, one after the other, from 1811.

After a strong recovery from the global recession of the early 1990s, Spain experienced a property boom from 1997 to 2007.

It almost certainly will come some very strong reactions from the markets, which only will confirm that if in Spain eventually rise the crisis, the whole world will suffer the same fate, and nobody wants that situation, so that in the medium term despite all these financial reactions must moderate and the economic performance of Spain and Europe should return to normal and growth.

In countries such as Britain and Spain, two major parties emerge which have strong influence and tend to elect most of the candidates, but a multitude of lesser parties exist with varying degrees of influence, and sometimes these lesser parties are able to elect officials who participate in the legislature.

Castilian identity is thus excluded from the historical nationalities of Spain such as Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country, but also other autonomous communities of Spain which due to historical reasons have their own strong identities, such as Andalusia, Asturias, Aragon, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands and the Valencian Community.

Extremadura, a region in western Spain, is usually not considered to be Castilian ; it has a strong link to neighbouring Andalusia.

Notable exceptions among trade unions are the Wobblies, and the strong anarcho-syndicalist movement of Spain.

In Europe the sport is increasingly developed, with Spain and Germany particularly strong and the UK and Ireland developing rapidly.

Zumalacárregui had no sympathy with the liberal principles which were spreading in Spain, and became noted as what was called a Servil or strong Royalist.

The Commonwealth was at war with Spain and feared Dutch intervention, in part because the Republic contained a strong Orangist party hostile to Cromwell and under the influence of exiled English royalists.

The freetekno movement appeared in first half of the 1990s and is currently very strong in France, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Austria, Poland, Canada and Cascadia – the US Pacific Northwest.