Nowhere is the development more apparent than in the army, which has been a powerful social glue that helped hold the country together.

"It was the social glue that held together the neighborhoods," she said.

In Japan, gift-giving has long been a kind of social glue, binding people and businesses.

Toby knew he had an obligation to keep the social glue in place.

The social glue in these communities has also weakened.

Witchcraft was, at first, merely a social glue that held the community together.

It's a conversational default setting, a kind of social glue, a way to feel friendly with women you may not know very well.

Y'know one way you can look at this as a social glue, another expression value.

It was the "social glue" that kept societies together.

Drink, she writes, became "the social glue of the human race.