Sentence examples for a hostile relationship from inspiring English sources

It often produces a hostile relationship where no previous relationship existed.

Mr. Jumblatt, like many others here, acknowledged that tiny Lebanon cannot afford to have a hostile relationship with Syria.

In the Bush years, it was easy for Ahmadinejad to argue that President Bush was not interested in anything but a hostile relationship with Iran.

"And that means we've got to go from what was clearly a hostile relationship and a whole set of structures that fit a hostile relationship to something that is much more akin to relationships that are natural and normal and understandable and workable between countries that don't consider themselves hostile to each other".

It would be an exaggeration to say that ours is a hostile relationship; yet it would also be an exaggeration to say that there is some kind of conflict of interest between us.

I gave him the letter from the Maroko Evictees Committee; he cited his achievements in employment and housing creation, on an annual budget of three quarters of a billion dollars, and he blamed the federal government — which is based in Abuja, two hundred and fifty miles to the northeast, and has long had a hostile relationship with Lagos — for politically motivated financial neglect.

The song combined R. & B. with unrelenting hip-hop, heavy beats with the clean, clear, sincere voice of Mary J. Blige — marrying two forms of music that had had a notoriously hostile relationship for years — at a level of innovation that no one had seen since Teddy Riley introduced new jack swing.

Bruce O. Riedel, an influential former C.I.A. officer who led a 2009 policy review for President Obama on Pakistan and Afghanistan, captured the prevailing sentiment in an Op-Ed in The Times, in which he called for a new policy of "containment," meaning "a more hostile relationship" toward the army and intelligence services.

It is time to move to a policy of containment, which would mean a more hostile relationship.

Mr. Berlusconi has a sometimes hostile relationship with the leaders of France and Germany and seems to relish taking positions at odds with them.

It is music made by those who have grown up with a permanently hostile relationship with the authorities – grime's incubator, the pirate radio stations of early 2000s London, existed permanently on the run from the authorities, the transmitters and studios hastily and secretively established on tower-block rooftops.