Ted Nash wanted his composition about Chagall to express his ties to family and Eastern European culture.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

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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Instead, the focus was on people-to-people exchanges -- encouraging family ties, and clearing the way for U.S.telecommunication firms and satellite radio and television services to seek access to the Cuban market.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13