Sentence examples for abrasive relationship from inspiring English sources
In the memoir Gregory writes that central to Bellow's psyche was his abrasive relationship with his own often disapproving father.
White, who in 1973 became the first Australian to win the Nobel prize for literature, was a difficult man, notorious for his abrasive relationship with a society that, high and low, did its best to alienate him.
Thirty-two yeago ago, the Kerner commission on the riots of the 1960's found the following: "The abrasive relationship between the police and the minority communities has been a major -- and explosive -- source of grievance, tension and disorder.
The stories about the PM's plans to abandon the idea of an early election and the tittle-tattle about Brown's personality and his abrasive relationship with colleagues – some of which has been categorically contradicted by politicians to whom the anecdotes are attributed – are Inside Out's special selling point.
To illustrate how role playing can expose faulty perceptions, consider a counseling situation in which an employer and an employee take on each other's role in staged confrontations to better understand their abrasive relationship.
Based on the scratching theory of single abrasive grain, the relationship between h and the normal grinding force Fnt is found, which is also validated by the experimental results.
The relationship between abrasive wear resistance and microstructure of a hardfacing alloy based on Fe Cr C Nb system (CNO) was investigated.
His impression of her as "rather too much of the grande dame... whose private life was a narrow one, who was cool and even abrasive in her outward relationships, and puritanically repressed within" was supplanted by "a picture of a woman hardly recognizable alongside the Edith Wharton of legend.
Although their working relationship was often abrasive, Chirac recognized Sarkozy as "one of the most gifted politicians of his generation".
Most notably, he has yet to speak to Pietersen, with whom the on-field relationship has often been abrasive.
A quite strong relationship was established between abrasive wear and void content and flexural strength of concretes.
