Sentence examples for a peripheral relationship from inspiring English sources

Balducci was an outsider in Scruggs's Oxford social sphere, where it was assumed that he was a troubled person who had tried to exploit a peripheral relationship with Scruggs in order to buy leniency.

Democrats and critics of Mr. Bush's domestic security strategy have argued that some of the money already sent to state and local agencies had been diverted to projects that had only a peripheral relationship to security efforts.

Jones has been critical of the deal, which he calls a "bargaining chip," leading to a contentious, albeit peripheral, relationship with Trump.

That might mean you take a job related to your skills, but only has some peripheral relationship to what you really want.

Best friends are still close, but the peripheral relationships — the ones whose only ties were geography and circumstance — have faded away.

Like the novel it follows, "Howards End"' begins not head on but from an angle, with a peripheral but telling relationship.

Wallerstein (1974) expanded on the duality of core-peripheral relationship by adding semi-peripheral states in his world system theory.

For example, in one family with four siblings affected by Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (a peripheral polyneuropathy), a direct relationship between a specific gene locus and this disease was demonstrated [ 12].

The problem of "modernity" and "postmodernity" in a peripheral culture and it's relationships with public spaces is in the core of the discussion of all the texts.

Frankly, I was taken aback that I was defriended by someone with whom I had only the most peripheral online relationship and who took my comments so personally.

If there is a causal relationship between peripheral, i.e. cervical structures and migraine, there should be identifiable dysfunctions that are more common in patients with migraine than in headache-free participants.