The company is eager to reinforce ties with its best customers at a time when it faces numerous business challenges.

Scapegoating may often take the form of a ritual that reinforces social ties.

It also reinforces social ties and village traditions for the young.

For many here, the fact that reinforcing ties is seriously on the agenda bespeaks the extraordinary shifts taking place throughout Africa.

Like a marriage contract, adoption was a way to reinforce inter-family ties and political alliances.

In doing so, he reinforced ties between himself and other scholars.

The need for wage labor in the Sierra reinforced traditional patron-client ties.

Historically, the Japanese banks have used their shareholdings to reinforce ties to clients and other members of integrated financial and industrial groupings, known as keiretsu.

The event is designed to reinforce Japanese American cultural ties and to ensure that such injustices will never occur again.

The goal of the Confrerie Pictura was to protect the Hague painters and to reinforce ties between its members.