This speculation has been based on the men's close ties.

He's forever getting some kind of sauce on his red ties.

But it had virtually nothing on known American ties to those abuses.

But that emphasis on personal ties has a flip side.

"We should ask what things spread well on weak ties," he said.

I always have a hard time taking people with cartoon figures on their tie seriously.

With her left hand she reached forward and grabbed the knot on my tie.

It was based on ties of language, history, spirituality, and basic interests in life.

Through a haze he felt the tug on his tie.

There are few remedies, he said, other than agreements among family members not to trade on their ties.