Those ex-Soviet countries whose history is bound up with Byzantium and Orthodoxy looked the other way.
In many cases, a company's culture is bound up with its home country.
They understand that the prosperity of one individual, one firm or one nation is bound up with the prosperity of others.
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The appealing idea that your you-ness is bound up with your memory runs up against the difficulty that memory is not reliable.
The evolution and function of these emotions is bound up with an area of research called theory of mind, to which this survey will return later.
Mr Bremmer, the president of the Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy, points out that state capitalism's fate is bound up with the fortunes of some very unpleasant political cliques, such as the Saudi royal family and the Russian oligarchy.
It has the deepest pockets, and its post-war renaissance is intimately bound up with European integration.
Mies is bound up both with the preservation effort and with a competition that aptly reflects his immense influence on the city.
But South Africa is not just being altruistic: its involvement in the rest of the continent is closely bound up with its own economic prospects.
The monarch's role is bound to diminish with his death.
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This week, web-savvy bloggers at Geekosystem appeared to have found evidence that the competition had been rigged against front-runner Zach Anner, a 25-year-old from Texas who is wheelchair-bound with cerebral palsy.
And the language divide is much less contentious in Wales and Scotland than it is in Canada, where pressure for independence in Quebec is intimately bound up with French-speakers' worry about the survival of their language and culture.
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Such is Ali's appeal, any book connected with him is bound to intrigue but the author has performed a particularly impressive job in recounting a week which many fight fans will hitherto have known little about.
Obama is bound to come up with some measures that can be portrayed as appealing to Republicans.
Membership at the NYSE is bound to be happy with the transaction.
They can see everything and share everything, and any branding initiative that appears less than authentic is bound to be met with skepticism.
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Even though writing the sacred words is so closely bound up with the Islamic faith, she says she experiences her art as liberating and profoundly universal.
Google's point about technology that can more discreetly record your life is bound to have resonance with the public, even if they are not yet ready to wear special glasses to do it.
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The Legal Aid lawyer is duty bound to defend such people with the utmost vigor, even if the lawyer knows that the client is guilty and is likely to do more bad things if the lawyer is successful in his or her defense.
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This is not simply a friendly call, but bound up with the fact that 27 March is the final day of Romania's population census - the first since 1992.
However, he is expected to spend his retirement in a monastery at the Vatican and his relationship with his successor as pope is bound to be an endless source of speculation, our correspondent adds.
Any open skies deal with America is also bound to bring a welcome shake-up to Europe's airline industry.
The switch to a discretionary system is bound to mean that some claimants with uncertain cases who previously might have received legal aid will no longer do so.
Similarly, we can think of long key and certificate validity periods as long password-rotation periods: If passwords are out there forever, someone with malevolent intentions is bound to discover and use them.
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Even Google Glass, which actually does appear to be a dramatic leap forward in the way we interact with computers, is bound to be a tough sell that could take years for the population to acclimate to.
There will be a period of public consultation first and there is bound to be intense opposition, with opponents claiming already that shopping centres and small businesses will be subjected to extra costs at the very moment when they can least afford it.
Considering that quantitative easing is effectively the same as an interest rate cut below a zero bound, the yield curve is very steep even with 10-year yields just below 2%.
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If the connecting flight is with the same airline then they are duty bound to get you to your final destination but with no guarantee as to time of arrival.
With its New York listing, Telkom is bound by strict rules against payment of bribes, and risks losing investors as well as being slapped with fines.
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The list was compiled by Granta, an influential British literary magazine, and also included Zadie Smith, with whom Ms Ali is bound to be compared.
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