Madoff had a high profile on Wall Street and had cultivated close relations with regulators.
The U.S. military maintained close relations with its Egyptian counterpart throughout former President Hosni Mubarak's rule.
Mr Ashdown's view matters because Mr Blair wants close relations with the Lib Dems.
One explanation is that equity underwriting still depends on close relations between issuers and their bankers.
"Local tribespeople did not like these women enjoying close relations with men from other communities, " he said.
He was a determined advocate of South-South dialogue, building close relations with ideologically like-minded presidents across Latin America.
Interventionists once attributed Japan's success to industrial policy and to close relations between groups of firms and banks.
America has long had close relations with countries like Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore (which are all treaty allies).
Critics suggest that close relations between the tabloids and senior police sources made the latter reluctant to delve deeper.
Close relations with the US government will be essential to make any progress.
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Yet the omens for close relations when the government took office were good.
The US shares very close relations with the rulers of Saudi Arabia and seldom exposes the world's biggest oil supplier to overt criticism.
Iraqi Shias, for instance, are still wary of Iranian meddling in Iraq, even though Iraq's main Shia parties have close relations with Iran.
This criticism rests, in part, on the mistaken notion that any close relations sponsored by U.S. citizens come to America quickly as permanent residents.
His close relations with the United States are particularly galling to Russia, which sees its former subject state as part of its sphere of influence.
At that meeting, both Mr Menem and Brazil's President Fernando Henrique Cardoso emphasised that their countries' recent disputes were small matters that did not undermine their close relations.
Uruguay and Mexico exemplify a critical benefit of free-trade agreements, well-understood by America's enemies: Fair and balanced economic relations set the stage for close relations at all levels.
Senator JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (Republican, Connecticut): Have very close relations with some of the militias, particularly the Shia militias, and that they have a very aggressive game plan in Iraq.
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I'm quite certain that the ongoing cooperation efforts between Brazil and the United States, as well as our close relations and partnership, are indeed key to both our nations.
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"As I have said before, I want it to be understood that there is no change to our close relations with China and South Korea, " he said on Tuesday.
With over 42, 000 graduates, two-thirds of whom live and work in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, Fox is a major source of management talent in the region and has close relations with business.
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So there have been very close relations between France and the United States, regardless of whether a Democrat or a Republican is in power here, or regardless of which party is in power in France.
Mr Chalabi, who has close relations with the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani as well as Muqtada al-Sadr, a militant cleric, helped broker the Shia alliance that dominated last January's election and helped draft the new constitution.
Already close relations between Israel and Washington grew stronger in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, forged by a common feeling among their leaders that they were acting in tandem as a bulwark against Islamic radicalism.
He adds that Beijing could play a crucial role in forging peace in Afghanistan because of its close relations to Pakistan, which has long-standing links to the Taliban, whose leadership is widely believed to operate from the country.
Britain has long enjoyed close relations with the Arab world but Mr Cameron was in opposition when Tony Blair helped rehabilitate Colonel Qaddafi as a reward for giving up his weapons of mass destruction, forsaking terrorism and helping out in the fight against al-Qaeda.
This question, which at its more fundamental level is related to deep-seated epistemological and methodological controversies over objectivity in the social sciences, is of utmost practical relevance in the field of migration and multiculturalism which has been characterized by rather close relations to public policy concerns.
Amirahmadi discussed his close relations with almost all of Iran's senior government officials as well as his strong association with senior U.S. officials through AIC, saying he has worked with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, current Secretary of State John Kerry and former Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Pickering.
The Chinese dramatically have boosted trade with their neighbors and maintain close military relations some six decades after they fought side by side in the Korean War.
Many senior Kfor men say that the close former relations between the Americans and the Kosovar Albanians make it hard to explain now to Albanians that things have changed.
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