Some have kinship ties with the rebels in Darfur and have supplied them with arms.

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Several high-profile recent relationships have proved the kinship between tennis and other sports too, especially golf.

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And even those who identify as "the 99%" have an ideological kinship with superrich lefties like Soros.

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There may not be that many would-be fighters left to mobilise among those tribes and religious groups who have a sense of kinship with the Fallujah defenders.

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They also expose the cynicism of SNP ministers to have offered false hope to kinship carers with kind words but no action to actually help them.

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"It's not a mass exodus right now, but people have moved out of the city along kinship lines, " Col.

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The once solid kinship-based communities are breaking down, and large extended families have been replaced by nuclear ones.

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She may have had some inkling of the image problems created by such public battles for the spoils of presidential kinship.

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He is a maverick in a country whose financial institutions have long operated around hak-yeon, ji-yeon and hyul-yun (school, hometown and kinship ties) and government diktat on who to lend to and how much.

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Vancouver should have been more attractive to American corporations and audiences alike given the lack of tape delays and the greater familiarity and kinship we share with our Northern neighbors.

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