• Both are tightly bound to the regime - by what they have gained and what they might lose if it falls?

    BBC: Syria businesses loyal despite downturn amid unrest

  • "Typically the concentrations are small in red mud and what is present is tightly bound to the particles of iron oxide, " he says.

    BBC: How toxic is Hungary's red sludge?

  • While the caesium is hard for plants and animals to take up when it is tightly bound to the soil, once in solution (dissolved in water) it can be more readily absorbed.

    BBC: Daunting challenge of Fukushima clean-up

  • Data integration processes (often called ETL when building a data warehouse or data prep when an analyst is massaging data) can take place in Pentaho so that the massive work of massaging and cleaning data does not have to be tightly bound to a specific data warehouse technology or to complicated programming methods.

    FORBES: Ideas for Solving the 'Data' Problem First, the 'Big' Problem Second: The Pentaho Way

  • But the move follows a string of incidents where either security in Passport - or the Hotmail free e-mail system to which it is tightly bound - has proved to be lax.

    BBC: New flaw puts Passport offline

  • And the images are as restrained and as precise as the highly ordered behavior of the characters, who wear their mask of dignity tightly bound in order not to burst out laughing or screaming.

    NEWYORKER: Good Girl (Gentille)

  • Speaking of the hinge, the act of folding the screen back into tablet mode feels controlled, but it isn't so tightly bound that you'll ever struggle to move the display this way and that.

    ENGADGET: blogger-avatar

  • In tie-dying, bundles of ramie threads are bound tightly with cotton before dying so as to produce a geometric or floral pattern when the thread is woven into fabric using a simple back-strap loom.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • One aspect of all this is that more and more gay people today, not feeling marginalized and embattled as a group in the way that their counterparts of a generation ago did, feel less and less of a need to cling tightly to the label that once would have bound them together.

    FORBES: Just What Is 'Gay Culture' In 2013?

  • It does not want to be bound by the EU's fiscal rules, but nor does it want a more tightly integrated euro zone leading to a two-speed Europe.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • The Bakken and Eagle Ford shales under Montana and North Dakota contain up to 700 billion barrels of fluid oil bound tightly into sandstone.

    FORBES: Shale Oil And Gas: The Contrarian View

  • Instead, slavery was replaced by serfdom in the guise of tenant farming that bound the ex-slaves to the land nearly as tightly as the master's chains.

    WSJ: Book Review: The Fall of the House of Dixie

  • There are bound to be further demands for the NHS to be more tightly regulated, although former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn recommends instead greater openness, better public reporting and more honesty from health managers the moment things go wrong.

    BBC: Stafford Hospital report to shape the health debate

  • In this compound, the tightly bound orbitals act like wells into which free electrons can fall, allowing the material to capture them more easily.

    ECONOMIST: Einstein and car batteries

  • Each slim volume of Writers Workshop poetry, fiction or drama they tended to be slim was bound in bright handloom cloth, and hand-stitched so tightly that it would open with a creak.

    ECONOMIST: P. Lal

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