They moved closer and closer together as they flew across the Indian Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

We worked as our fathers did,". Now,the farmers plant their crops closer together and run water through narrow trenches.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

"It is my hope that the mosque will help to bring our city even closer together, and help repudiate the false and repugnant idea that the attacks of 9/11 were in any ways consistent with Islam."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

We must seek rapid growth of Afghan national security forces, and that is the army and the police, and we must improve their effectiveness and our own through closer partnering, and this means we must plan together, live together, operate together and take advantage of each other's strengths as we move forward,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.01