English-Dutch translation for "tie"

Another possibility, very obvious, is homophily, or, birds of a feather flock together; here, I form my tie to you because you and I share

There is hardly a country anywhere in the world that does not have some special tie of history or friendship with one or other of the

It goes without saying that closer ties with the European Union are a desirable objective.

For years and years there have been strong ties between the European Union and the United States.

I didn't even wear a tie to work anymore.

What's this fucking tie business?

Mr President, I would like to place on record my appreciation to Mr Berlusconi for the gift of a tie.

There was a Presidential logo – those beautiful ties you are all wearing – and there was music; there were paintings and wonderful dashes of European colour.

And on both occasions, you know, one of us was missing the tie.

George Gamow, also a great physicist, he designed the tie.

He was wearing his cornflower-blue tie.

However, I also have reason to believe that many, if not most, of you are actually tying your shoes incorrectly.

Now up until that moment, I would have thought that, by age 50, one of the life skills that I had really nailed was tying my shoes.

I shall not take up Mr Medina's last suggestion, because in settling international disputes, if we tied everything to everything else, there would be no end to it.

I couldn't build this the way I knew because hand-tied knots weren't going to withstand a hurricane.

Returning to India to work with those fishermen, we made a net of a million and a half hand-tied knots -- installed briefly in Madrid.

I tied those knots.

I think it is excellent that we should try to avoid diplomatic links with this regime and, where such ties exist, to sever them immediately.

I am thus not persuaded that it is absolutely vital to tie certain quotas to certain countries.

That is why we should tie ratification of the partnership and cooperation agreements to a peace settlement.

So if you tie that -- you have to tie that back with the law.

to tie on

Isn't it ironic that Christians who claim to believe in an infinite, unknowable being then tie God down in closed systems and rigid

They eventually discover a huge wall that's filled with small holes, ideal for docking a dirigible because you've got a place to tie up.

As far as the content is concerned, the charter must tie in with the existing conventions, such as the Council of Europe's European

its prices to tie in with Bilbao's short sea port.

I was also asked how our arguments and ideas tied in with those of the United States on democracy and the wider Middle East.

This repeats itself through the night -- rehearsal, tying to the mast, conning his way out of it, beating the poor first mate up mercilessly.

The Commission must not be able to tie our hands here completely.

We do not want to tie your hands or hold you hostage.

to tie up

Should I have their hands tied behind their backs?

to tie up

Whether we take him to the orphanage or tie him up and throw him in the lake, it's our business, not yours.

When I turned to President Schmid I was given the following answer: 'You are right, but I cannot tie the hands of those present in the

It's all that sawing and tying