We loosely call them groups.

After winning independence, the American colonies united loosely under the Articles of Confederation.

I'm an independent multimedia author born in Damascus and loosely based in Montreal.

The film is loosely based on a 1987 novel of the same name by H.F. Saint.

Instead, he would find a vast collection of loosely connected, quirky rules, reflecting the whims of the programmer.

The group of interdisciplinary scientists that met in Paris is loosely affiliated under the banner Foundations of Information Science.

Jia s movie is episodic four loosely linked stories about lone acts of extreme violence, mostly culled from contemporary newspaper stories.

Quadrophenia is a 1979 British film, loosely based on the 1973 rock opera of the same name by The Who.

Financial markets and institutions with global reach need a global macro prudential regulator, not just a loosely organized college of supervisors.

As a result, all politics that were derived, no matter how loosely, from Marxism, lost credibility, and finally died in 1989.

HONG KONG The proliferation of China s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow banking system has been raising fears of possible financial instability.

Second, there is an underlying historical tension between the large Sunni majority and the Alevi Bektashi minority, loosely linked to Shia Islam.

American Sniper, loosely based on Kyle's memoir, touts the frontier mentality a neo cowboy movie made by a former cowboy movie star.

If managers are only loosely tied to shareholders, they could more willingly give up a bigger share of the pie to labor.

Here, take this,' she said, turning to Tanya who was drawing off a ring which fitted loosely on her aunt's small tapering finger.

If they do, there will be a two speed Europe, with a politically integrated inner core and others more loosely associated on the outside.

A jagged line loosely joining Tokyo to Jakarta via Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore was sufficient to sustain international cooperation.

They have a rather closed system of big corporations and big labour unions loosely directed by an interventionist government with the collaboration of big banks.

Al Qaeda's network of tens of thousands of people in loosely affiliated cells in some sixty countries gives it a scale surpassing anything seen before.

In fact, among the 12 large OECD nations, a higher degree of corporatism as commonly measured is loosely associated with lower employment and lower productivity.

Kleist made the unusual decision to narrate much of his book through Facebook posts, which are loosely based on interviews with Krug and Omar's sister.

Cartoonists and editors loosely agreed that there would always be cultural and religious issues to take into account when determining what can and should be published.

The host of the competition was a VKontakte group called Parliamentary League, a debate club affiliated loosely with the Duma (the lower house of Russia s parliament).

Recently, the IMF proposed a new global tax on financial institutions loosely in proportion to their size, as well as a tax on banks profits and bonuses.

First, there have been the hub and spoke alliances of the US with Japan, South Korea, and Australia (and more loosely with Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines).

Local Fatah leaders like Marwan Barghouti have tremendous power over the nationalist armed units that are loosely organized under the title of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

The term cyber war is used very loosely for a wide range of behaviors, ranging from simple probes, website defacement, and denial of service to espionage and destruction.

One commitment can be loosely described by the image of German and European unity as constituting two sides of the same coin. One could not exist without the other.

Baron Munchausen () is a fictional German nobleman in literature and film, loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen ( 11 May 1720 22 February 1797).

This, by the way, may not be mere copycat, but an attempt by Europe s central bankers, wary of exchange rate volatility, to loosely co ordinate interest rates to promote stable exchange rates.

Some speakers even loosely compared Fayadh's situation to events in Russia, including recent reports that some books published by the George Soros Foundation were taken from a library in Komi and burned.

But the loosely worded accord soon collapsed, and North Korea refused to return to the talks until the US stopped shutting down bank accounts suspected of counterfeiting and laundering money for Kim s regime.

Women from the hill tribe region a term loosely used to describe ethnic minority communities living in the north face particular cultural obligations that can play a part in why many end up here.

In a study published in January, the economists Claude Erb and Campbell Harvey consider several possible models of gold s fundamental price, and find that gold is at best only loosely tethered to any of them.

In a study published in January, the economists Claude Erb and Campbell Harvey consider several possible models of gold s fundamental price, and find that gold is at best only loosely tethered to any of them.

After all, some of these real world locations and their histories loosely correspond to the fictional peoples and places in the series, like the Caucasus and the Dorthraki or the north of Iraq and the Second Sons.

He doesn t seem to be a genuine ideological right winger, but rather an opportunist who marketed a series of what could only loosely be described as policies because he knew they d play well with his right wing base.

The group of interdisciplinary scientists that met in Paris is loosely affiliated under the banner Foundations of Information Science. They have been working in a distributed collaboration for eight years and come from a range of countries and specialties.

50 years in which loosely coordinated groups are going to be given increasingly high leverage, and the more those groups forego traditional institutional imperatives like deciding in advance what's going to happen, or the profit motive the more leverage they'll get.

In the proposed Political Project Buratino, someone (likely an LDPR official) explains a plan to create a viral campaign for Buratino, a beloved character from a fairy tale by Aleksey Tolstoy loosely based on the Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.

In fact, among the 12 large OECD nations, a higher degree of corporatism as commonly measured is loosely associated with lower employment and lower productivity. The reason for these negative effects appears to be that high corporatism is strongly correlated with stifled entrepreneurship and obstructive job protection.

'Oh, do leave me alone!' she cried and returning to her bedroom she sat down where she had sat when talking with her husband. Locking together her thin fingers, on which her rings hung loosely, she went over in her mind the whole of their conversation.

Known colloquially in Puerto Rico as gallina de palo, which loosely translates to chicken of the trees , these herbivores can grow to about 1.5 meters in length, though they can reach lengths of up to 2 meters and can live between 10 to 15 years in the wild.

These units, most of which are not controlled by the PNA s central leadership, are more loyal to grassroots figures than to uniformed PNA officers. Local Fatah leaders like Marwan Barghouti have tremendous power over the nationalist armed units that are loosely organized under the title of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Lynott replaced Robertson with Gary Moore again, and around this time the band loosely joined forces with Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols, and also Chris Spedding and Jimmy Bain, to form The Greedy Bastards, who played a small number of gigs playing a varied selection of songs.