(1) We are a very close-knit family and support each other through any crises.

(2) The racing world is a pretty close-knit fraternity.

(3) Events over the last year have created a close-knit community.

(4) Close-knit communities have ways of enforcing such agreements.

(5) We have a talented, close-knit team.

(6) Probably, in a close-knit community the negative response of this family has influenced the uptake of the test.

(7) It was a close-knit community with no ambition to expand its interests and activities.

(8) We grew up in a close-knit, self-sufficient family with few outside friends.

(9) The rural family was a close-knit one with, at times, three generations living under the one roof.

(10) They are a close-knit family.

(11) They are a very close-knit group.

(12) the close-knit community of a small village.

(13) We're a very close-knit family.

(14) By all accounts the Thatcher family is a close-knit foursome, and Husband Denis is a cheery, supportive consort.

(15) New York is now home to Kissin and his close-knit family, which includes his first and only teacher, Anna Kantor.

(16) She is a shy, quiet, religious girl from a small, close-knit family.

(17) Ministers lost status and irritated each other as diverse populations tore apart the unity of originally close-knit old towns.

(18) This might be because Dickens is trying to tell us that society should be close-knit one and not isolated into different units.

(19) Jess is a quiet, intense kid from a large, close-knit farm family in Washington.

(20) For example, most middle-class people do not belong to close-knit networks at all.

(21) One of the inherent weaknesses of the modern squad system is that a close-knit clique becomes impervious to failure and criticism.

(22) It seems that these patterns are maintained by insider knowledge depending on the extent to which speakers belong to relatively close-knit groups.

(23) The emphasis was on self-reliance, with the children free to work out their own solutions without a close-knit family environment.

(24) It's also the first time that outsiders have been allowed into their close-knit community.

(25) The areas where neighbours would keep an eye on things were Wester Ross and Speyside, both close-knit farming communities.

(26) Beyond that, of course, were the compensations of growing up in a large but close-knit family.

(27) Thus, technicians of all kinds worked together in a close-knit, focused group.

(28) Various versions have been related by the locals of this close-knit and defensive community.

(29) All of this made the rural village an extremely close-knit society.

(30) Joan was delighted to welcome her boyfriend into the bosom of her large, close-knit family.

(1) We are a very close-knit family and support each other through any crises.

(31) At some point, the hundreds of companies that are listed but not actively traded will also have to be removed, an unappetizing prospect in such a small and close-knit business community.

(32) Oyler says it was easy to create a vibrant life because of the energy and close-knit nature of the industry in China.

(33) In the beginning, says Malone, our ancestors lived as small groups of hunter-gatherers(/close-knit.html), enjoying close-knit social bonds and egalitarian decision-making.

(34) Peng Peng, a 19-year-old junior at a university in Zhejiang, is a member of the "Chinese Recluse Hacker Union", a close-knit online community of programmers.

(35) It is not always easy to explain the close bonds that develop between soldiers, particularly on operations, but it is a form of love, and a Gurkha community is especially close-knit.

(36) With the joining of Australia, New Zealand and Russia,ASEM partners have formed a close-knit community of interests, covering the entire Eurasian continent from east to west.

(37) Gilly remembers what a close-knit farming community this once was. She especially recalls the annual acorn roast with a bonfire every year on Diamond Hill behind the house.

(38) It all suggests a close-knit club as Havel, and the club dues are paid by Washington in this case.

(39) The traders were friends and neighbors; many were members of the close-knit Mennonite community. They bought and sold flowers on a market that functioned because a man's word was his bond.

(40) The Illinois senator has put together a close-knit team of aides to run his campaign and might prefer to run with someone with whom he already has an easy rapport.

(41) That respect, along with small, close-knit project teams, is a key piece of the puzzle to Apple's success.

(42) In this paper, the cause and removal method of sawtooth connetion of coloured stripes when horizontal coloured stripe close-knit fabrics are knitted discoursed.

(43) That's because private networks typically link small, close-knit communities in which all members have superfast connections.

(44) All are members of a close-knit but fractious group that has dominated the American debate over the Arab - Israeli problem.

(45) It is England between the two World Wars, where close-knit communities live in quiet villages or rich city folk assemble for weekends at grand country houses.

(46) They may have a close-knit group of friends, but when talking to strangers, they instantly freeze up.

(47) This person already has a close-knit social group with little inclination to extend it, therefore advances from outsiders are not usually welcome.

(48) In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.