Human rights activists and an attorney with ties to the case, questioned the constitutionality of holding prisoners for up to six weeks without charge or possibility of bail.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

Yeats bridges Irish and English cultures, and he is importantly Protestant with social and family ties to English life.

叶芝连接了爱尔兰和英国文化，作为新教徒，他和英国,在社会和家庭方面联系紧密。

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The recent killing of three people with ties to the U.S.consulate in Juarez,Mexico, and the shooting death of a popular rancher on his property in Arizona, are increasing the anger over drug-related violence on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

He has not stepped back from his policy of seeking to work with Iran after thirty years without diplomatic ties.

VOA: special.2009.06.20

In this book he describes his efforts to restart diplomatic ties with China during the presidency of Richard Nixon in the early nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2011.07.13

But Somalis say some of its members are believed to be Somali factional leaders with close ties to Ethiopia.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

He says two of the three opposition parties that signed the Code of Conduct are moles with suspicious ties to the government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

One projection indicates that 23,000 jobs with direct or indirect ties to the space industry, could be lost in Florida within a year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Beijing,which has extensive trade and economic ties with Tehran, has been reluctant to press for new sanctions.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Protest organizers in Crimea say they are counting on newly elected President Viktor Yanukovych to downplay Ukrainian history and language and to improve ties with Moscow.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

But ministry spokesman Chun Hae Sung tells reporters North Korea quickly acted on other aspects of its threat to cut all communications ties with the South.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

To accomplish the transition smoothly, says Yoon,North Korea must either normalize ties with the United States, or win de facto global acceptance as a nuclear state.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

New Delhi views its growing ties with the United States as a counterweight to China a one-time rival of which it continues to be wary, despite steadily improving ties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Clinton's assertion that the anti-terrorism commitment is government-wide in Islamabad came in response to a question about Pakistan's intelligence service, which has long been accused ties with Islamic extremists.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Ms.Tymoshenko said in a televised appeal to the nation Saturday she is convinced her rival, Victor Yanukovich, who seeks closer ties with neighboring Russia, had not won the presidential election.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

The 58-year-old Ghimpu and his pro-Western coalition, dubbed the 'Alliance for European Integration', seek closer ties with the European Union and want to take the former Soviet republic out of Russia's sphere of influence.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

The group in Yemen, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, is believed to have ties with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.passenger jet on December 25.

VOA: standard.2010.01.07

Mr.Wen says the strongest impression he got from his three days in Pyongyang was that North Korea not only hopes to improve relations with the United States, but also hopes to have better ties with South Korea and Japan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

At the same time, the Zimbabwe government's Herald newspaper quoted senior government officials as saying they would like to normalize ties with the EU but that the starting point would be for the EU to admit that the sanctions are wrong.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

"Our presence in Afghanistan only fuels the insurgency there, and it is an insurgency that is based now upon the fact that people are occupied, as opposed to having any ideological ties with the Taliban or with al-Qaida or any hatred of the West,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Long-time former Egyptian Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel Meguid praised Mr.Obama for coming to Egypt and for trying to develop stronger ties with the Arab world: "I very much welcome this visit and consider that it's a very important move by Mr.Obama, and that in coming and visiting, to know more about our area and about Egypt, is something very,very successful.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

Meir Javedanfar,an Iranian-born Middle East analyst in Tel Aviv says that he thinks the United States will have to make substantial concessions before the Iranian leadership considers improving ties with Washington: "I think if America can offer Iran something that has equal value or exceeds the value of Iran's nuclear program, then the Iranians might consider it.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21