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Bear in mind the routine tooth-gnashing the European Union's budgets inspire among voters in net-contributor countries, and the relative meagreness of those contributions compared with what they may be obliged to pay in a closer-knit euro zone.

EU Integration Would Come at a High Price Alen Mattich 2011

MarkNet allows executives to become experts in something new by allowing them to engage partners all over the world, and has in a very short time turned our marketing department into a much closer-knit community.

Social Networking Breaks Down Internal Silos Steve Liguori 2010

Urban growth becomes less expensive in the closer-knit communities with less investment in infrastructures and transportation systems needed.

Agro-Housing for a Sustainable Urban China | Inhabitat 2008

Instead of seeing it as a loss, we can see it as a win - winning new ways to do things and gaining closer-knit communities to boot.

Graham Hill: To Really Save Energy, Create a CRAG 2009

Putin's elite, says former FSB Colonel Gennady Gudkov, now a Duma deputy, is "far closer-knit and far more cohesive" than the elite ever was under Yeltsin.

Under A Quiet Surface 2007

"From the word go, we're a closer-knit team," Montgomerie said.

USATODAY.com - USA no match for Europe at Ryder Cup 2004

A closer-knit, lower-stakes field is a much more enjoyable experience, especially from the personal and/or work environment side of things...

May you live in interesting times 2005

At first there would be an American cast to the congress, almost Rotarian in its forms and ceremonies, then the closer-knit European vitality would fight through, and finally the

Tender is the Night 2003

African Union, envisioned as a far stronger and closer-knit body.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

Lacaze reasoned that over the course of the rebellion the government soldiers had regrouped and become a closer-knit force.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997