tied in

Dusty’s image of rebuilding as it was, you know, replicating what they had, it’s in a way tied in to grief.

In an editor’s note, the magazine tried to rebut objections that it had been tied in with the “birther” claims that Barack Obama had not been born in the U.S.

In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, King emphasized how we are “caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”

"It's about shedding light on a part of history. It's in my ancestry, it's all tied in."

Once they had signed, all were told they were tied in for seven years.