Liberians have made much of their historic ties to America.

The Jewish people have undeniable historic ties to this part of their homeland.

I come from a family with historic ties to both Labour and the Union movement.

The region as a whole shares many linguistic, cultural and historic ties with Ukraine.

It would be facilitated by a common language and historic ties.

With our historic ties and already strong relations we are in a very good position to both support and benefit from this phenomenon.

Secondly, on the trade front, as you have pointed out, we have historic ties.

In addition, old historic ties between these areas would be broken.

"This is no good reason to question our historic ties," she said.

But now those two countries are struggling to avoid the guilt by association based on their historic ties to Russia.