But that very closeness has given rise to new dangers, he said.
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It shows a new closeness forming between BBC news and the public.
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Of course the closeness of small towns can provide healing moments too.
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What about her dangerous closeness to Lord Melbourne, her first Prime Minister?
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Others look dimly on Blanco's closeness to free-trade deals outside the WTO.
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Yes, because you are here; because of the nearness of the houses.
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Their nearness was an unspeakable comfort to the two in the crevice.
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Then for the first time she realised the nearness of the water.
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The nearness of it to the heart of France struck me suddenly.
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The summers are cool, owing to the nearness of the arctic ice-fields.
A Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit.