But in small towns, political allies and rivals may meet every day at the supermarket, their children attend the same schools, and their business relationships sometimes interact intimately with their political lives.

Ms. Graziano was seen "holding hands and interacting intimately" with Mr. Fappiano during a legal visit, prosecutors wrote.

It holds that eons of evolution, during which humans constantly and intimately interacted with nature, have imbued Homo sapiens with a deep, genetically based emotional need to affiliate with the rest of the living world.

The two domains keep their specific tertiary structure, but interact intimately to bury a hydrophobic core; the inter-module linker makes up the third strand of the EGF-module's major beta-sheet.

Cytoskeletal elements interact extensively and intimately with cellular membranes.

"When you steer a camera or a ground vehicle like a tank, you need to interact intimately with it," he said.

Thus, much of the collection Mr. Rank now has sequestered in East Hampton consists of humans intimately interacting with each other, sheep, chickens and watermelons.

Still others say that because the satellite system by itself cannot measure events in the Earth's core or mantle that interact intimately with the land surface, seas and atmosphere in making the global system run, it will provide an incomplete picture.

These expansions may interact intimately with the astrocytic processes that are interconnected with the hypocellular layer (Layer II).

Indeed, cytoskeletal elements interact extensively and intimately with the cell membrane.