As with so many truly powerful bonds, it waned now only through neglect.

And environmental peril can loosen the powerful bonds people feel to place.

No doubt about it, between him and the people there is a powerful bond.

She'd always had a powerful bond with the child, but it weakened over great distances.

"That act is such a powerful bond between two people," he said.

"And some groups have a neighborhood that keeps them together, but the Mexicans have a pretty powerful common bond."

But we also understand that there are times when duty or distance can divide two people, who nonetheless share a powerful bond.

It was the only outward manifestation he would permit of the powerful bond between them.

She mused upon the cruel and powerful bond between them.

The loss of a parent was one of the things we had in common and proved a powerful bond.