family tie

Her grandfather was from the Donetsk region of Ukraine, a family tie that compounds her anguish.

The family tie trumps friendship, and that puts Caine in a painful moral bind.

But where the affection is genuine and independent of the family tie, then it’s only natural for your loyalties to reflect that independence.

One reason Lara and I found ourselves drawn into this particular case was a family tie to the legal history.

Ramsey and Tate share a family tie.