We loosely call them groups.

Indian fathers still sometimes repay debts by committing their children to bonded labor.

Democratic societies, by contrast, need to be bonded more powerfully than some chance grouping.

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.

We now know that chimpanzee society is male bonded, and there is ample evidence of territorial warfare between communities.

Bhatia and I bonded over our shared love of hoops and spent countless hours watching the Phoenix Suns play.

Each has been the other's other,'' and their sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile, relations have bonded them more deeply than either realizes.

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.

Estimates of the government's growing aggregate liabilities (bank debt, un funded pension plans, bonded indebtedness for infrastructural projects, etc.) range from 70 to over 150 of GDP.

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.

Africa In Mauritania, the last country to abolish slavery (in 1981), it is estimated that up to 600,000 men, women and children, or 20 of the population, are enslaved with many used as bonded labour.

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).

Rural girls and boys who are poor, have little or no education and bonded by traditional social norms and values are most likely to get married early defying the legislations. But that is always not the case.

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.

As of 2011, according to a report by the United Nations, 10 15,000 women and children are trafficked from Nepal to India and the Gulf where they are either forcefully engaged into the sex trade, or sold as bonded labourers.

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.

We now know that chimpanzee society is male bonded, and there is ample evidence of territorial warfare between communities. The initial discovery arose from the assumption that chimpanzees, so close in evolution to humans, could not be as individualistic as Western science supposed.

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.