To keep himself awake as he flew east during the long night, Post tied a piece of string to one finger.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

But he agrees that in recent years, many companies have tied pay to short-term performance, instead of their long-term health.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

On monetary policy, Roosevelt and the Congress decided that the dollar should no longer be tied to the price of gold.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England, for example,just tied finger length to success in financial trading.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

This nest is made up of thousands of pieces of bamboo tied together with the kind of brightly colored rope usually used by mountain climbers.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

The other end of the string was tied to a heavy aircraft tool.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Instead,it tied together a number of different unions and gave them general leadership.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

The rates they charge are tied to the number of readers.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

The value of silver was tied to the value of gold.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Many in these stricken villages say their roots are here and in spite of the disaster, they are deeply tied to the land and people.

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

Fisher notes that not every stutterer in the Drayna study had the defective gene, meaning there must be a number of other genes tied to stuttering.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

A statement by MEND said "a situation where the future of the Niger Delta is tied to the health and well-being of one man is unacceptable."

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

The Federal Reserve says the U.S.economy is tied to the health of economies overseas, noting that exports have decreased as major trading partners have also fallen into recession.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

And the future of one country will be tied to the other."

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

Much of the horrific sectarian violence across Iraq in 2006 and 2007 was tied to Sunnis boycotting the last national elections and then being shut out of government.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

Calves are roped and tied in a matter of seconds.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

Those are questions that don't have answers yet." Analysts say President Medvedev's idea of creating a Russian Silicon Valley is tied to his broader plan to modernize the country's economy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Nabhan is thought to have been closely tied to Fazul Abdullah Mohamed, al-Qaida's chief operative in the region and a suspected mastermind of the 1998 embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

"This situation in which you have got three parties with equal shares of the vote really closely tied to the performance of the third party in the debate is absolutely unprecedented in British politics, we have never seen a situation like this."

VOA: standard.2010.04.22