Their letter had no apparent ties to this year's elections and expressed no opinion on the merits of the new Medicare law.

The murder of Mrs. Santapaola, 54, remains a troubling mystery because in her case there was no apparent tie with informants.

-so the men themselves have no apparent ties with any foreign government," J was saying.

He was without apparent ties to the royal family and there is uncertainty concerning the circumstances of his coming to power.

I had no apparent ties to what happened, so no one ever thought to even question me.

The group targeted the boathouse because of apparent ties to Oxford University.

One apparent tie between the firms was an investment banker who worked with Armacon.

"An awful lot of hard young men with no apparent ties to Kosovo are coming," one official said.

But, even with the broader powers, the government has frequently chosen not to issue blocking orders on some organizations with apparent ties to terrorism.

And they said the group's apparent ties with the trade center case suggested that the threat was not spreading across the nation like an uncontrolled virus.