Not alone but as part of family, of something larger yet even more close-knit.
Perhaps it is easier to build consensus in a small, close-knit and pragmatic country.
Lacking close-knit and proximate networks, families turn to paid sitters for their childcare needs.
Inside the close-knit Satmar community, there is little consensus about whether change is inevitable or desirable.
Cole is a local good ol' boy, from whose close-knit family Lusa feels coldly excluded.
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His message was picked up by Dallaglio, who plays under Edwards at the famously close-knit Wasps club.
French "equipages", by contrast, are close-knit groups where members pay a yearly subscription to attend every hunt.
It's a little bit smaller, a little bit more close-knit, but still you get the beautiful Hollywood-type feel.
These changes mean that more parents are raising children without the support of relatives or a close-knit community.
NATO, Mr Solana makes sure that nobody forgets him in the close-knit, inward-looking world of Spanish Socialist politics.
The deaths brought heartache to the Glaubers' close-knit, ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn.
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The couple were part of the borough of Brooklyn's close-knit Orthodox Jewish community.
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The North Dakota State Government website says the move can be explained by the state's close-knit, rural communities.
Female genital mutilation has been banned in some African countries, but it is still practiced in some remote, close-knit communities.
"It remains a close-knit community with a great heart, " the minister told CNN Friday after Murray won his semifinal match.
Mr Buffett liked Iscar's steady long-term growth, its international reach, its investment in people and its close-knit, no-nonsense management style.
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The arrests in Britain this week show that, with the right intelligence, it is possible to uncover close-knit terror cells.
The two met in Boston, where Todashev had lived and where there is a small, close-knit community of Chechens, said Taramov.
Now this close-knit community is tackling its biggest project of all: reinventing a small-scale assembly line as a modern-day technological hub.
Mr Sutcliffe said the community around Miss Stone's home in East Devon was a "close-knit" one which "looks after its own".
Commanding Officer, Commander Keri Harris, said decommissioning a fine warship and disbanding her close-knit crew was never going to be easy.
He married Florence and settled in Ferney amongst a close-knit set of friends, managing amazingly to keep everyone in the dark.
They were a close-knit team that has remained tight four decades later.
Traditionally, the heads of these close-knit enterprises treat their employees with the same respect and affection they show for their own families.
It is these kind of close-knit friendships that spring up from sport and school that is most missed by Bramhall-raised Alex Broadfoot.
The 29-year-old mayor described his village as close-knit and friendly, "the kind of place where you'd say, 'oh, it would never happen here'".
Joan Fenney, 79, who has lived in the dairy on Rose Lane since she was three-years-old, said it was a close-knit family business.
Failure is hard "when you work in a close-knit group, because people influence each other a lot, " says Ms. Edwards, a Tallahassee, Fla.
"They're absolutely shocked, it's a very close-knit community, but also sad as well to think that this would happen on their doorstep, " he said.
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Both Aron and Leiby were members of the borough's close-knit Orthodox Jewish community, although police say it doesn't appear that they knew each other.
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