Mr Justice MacDuff decided that the professional relationship was sufficiently close so as to impose responsibility.

BBC: Royal Courts of Justice

Mr Justice Macduff decided the professional relationship between a priest and his bishop was sufficiently close so as to impose responsibility.

BBC: Hampshire & Isle of Wight

Anyone who knows enough information about the case to be a useful defense witness often will be sufficiently close to the alleged wrongdoing that the prosecutor might bring charges after the testimony.

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By 2007, when Mr. Bo was appointed Communist Party chief of Chongqing, Mr. Heywood told at least one friend he was sufficiently close to Mr. Bo to accompany him as he flew into the city to take up his new post.

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