"I am convinced that in the case of a secret of this importance it would rise superior to the most intimate domestic ties."

This is not the first time the yakuza have been found to have intimate ties with the financial world.

Other research findings also suggest that less intimate ties can, under certain circumstances, be important.

American support for European integration is consistent with the fostering of even more intimate trans-Atlantic ties.

Perhaps the bond with his brothers had wrecked him for any other intimate ties.

Lorimier had intimate ties to the French and Shawnee refugees who helped him settle the area.

His family's law firm already has long, intimate ties to the regular Brooklyn Democratic organization.

A strictly objective third person narration would not be conducive to having an intimate tie with Parker.

But there is also unwillingness or inability among many single heterosexual men to form intimate emotional ties.

Consequential strangers can also support intimate ties, especially in the family.