About 12% of the population are currently members of the Church of Scotland, with 40% claiming affinity.

Taaraism (Taarausk in Estonian language) is a Neopagan ethnic religion practiced as of 2000 by approximately 1,900 people in Estonia, albeit 11% of the population claims affinity to it.

"You know, Matthias, for a mouse that claims affinity with Martin the Warrior, you can be singularly foolish sometimes."

Some neo-orthodox proponents have gone so far as to claim greater affinity with atheists in that regard than with the theological and cultural trappings of so-called "Christendom", which Kierkegaard venomously denounced in his later works.

If Israel sees its military campaign in the West Bank as a justifiable echo of Mr. Bush's assault on Al Qaeda, Palestinians claim affinity with the American colonists' revolt against an occupying power.

Thus, the coming of Islam to Lanao further sustained the already existing principalities thereby further claiming affinity to the Muslim world.

The Ukrainian Radical party claimed kinship and affinity with the similarly peasant-based socialist Serbian Radical Party of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He claims affinity with New Deal efforts to erase the fears of poverty and old age.

And now that the Rorschach test has been taken by the political party to which Mr. Powell claims affinity, the preliminary results are easy to read: The Contract-era Republican establishment doesn't want Mr. Dole, whether Mr. Powell runs or not.

Tang Shunzhi was married to the grandmother of Zhuang Qiyuan (1559-1633), who compiled genealogies of Tangs and Zhuangs and claimed intellectual affinity to his predecessors.