All maintained sentimental ties with Earth, but difficulties of interstellar travel and local parochialism ensured that there was no central government.

Willie said, "No sentimental ties to the good old Caine?"

The club also has sentimental ties for Mr. Zhuang.

In spirit you will be able to enjoy desires that have strong emotional and sentimental ties.

He said the country's foundation as a free society depends upon building sentimental ties.

Something held her there-perhaps the old associations and sentimental ties, perhaps the unwillingness to take the chance of moving somewhere else and then not liking it.

Nobody without a sentimental tie is going to hand over large sums to a manager who has not established a track record as an investor, he said.

To his amazement the great majority, because of family, sentimental or other ties with the city, were reluctant to leave.

While the simple solution appears to be selling the home for a huge profit and moving, sentimental ties make that decision a last resort.

But Washington also has longstanding political, economic and sentimental ties to Taipei, with which it had a security treaty for many years.