Sentence examples for a very tense relationship from inspiring English sources

Those complaints greatly overstate the difficulties and downplay the progress in what was long a very tense relationship.

Vince Cable has since claimed that the Lib Dems have a "very tense relationship" with the Tories over environmental policy.

"It's always been a very tense relationship," says Louise Newman, director of the centre for developmental psychiatry and psychology at Monash University.

"For the longest time the Turkish government had been frozen out; for five or six years [President Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan had not been invited to Brussels and had a very tense relationship with the US.

In addition to the reported loss of more than 1,400 lives during the stampede, the political firestorm that has resulted is exacerbating an already very tense relationship.

"It makes for very tense relationships," said John Young, who runs Cryptome, a website depository for secret documents along the lines of WikiLeaks.

It was a very tense thing.

It's a very tense time.

It's a very tense situation there.

It creates a very tense, competitive, know-it-all environment.

"It was a very tense, difficult atmosphere," the manager said.