Sentence examples for aggravated relations from inspiring English sources

Iran's detention of the Americans had aggravated relations with the United States, which is at odds with Iran over issues including its nuclear program and its hostility toward Israel.

The C.I.A., for its part, has continued to carry out missile strikes inside Pakistan using armed drone aircraft, a campaign that has been tacitly blessed by Pakistani leaders but that has further aggravated relations between the C.I.A. and the ISI.

Touching upon a problem that has aggravated relations with Asian neighbors this year, Emperor Akihito stressed the importance of accurately understanding Japan's wartime legacy in a news conference to mark his 72nd birthday.

Hope Reeves (NYT) ITHACA: EX-TAIWAN CHIEF TO VISIT CORNELL -- Lee Teng-hui, whose 1995 visit to the United States aggravated relations between Washington and Beijing when he delivered a speech with political overtones at Cornell University, plans to visit Cornell again.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, gang violence and incidents between the Omaha Police Department and members of the African-American community aggravated relations between groups in North and South Omaha.

Meanwhile, conflict over oil and territory is aggravating relations between the centre and the Kurdistan government.

But an intelligence coup is useless if it aggravates relations between supposedly friendly states, which is what the Vanunu affair shows every sign of doing.

The episode threatened to aggravate relations between North Korea and China, a critical source of aid for the impoverished North and one of its few remaining allies.

Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has openly agitated against it, aggravating relations with Mr Obama already strained by rows over settlement-building and the lack of progress on a Palestinian peace deal.

There had been some concern over the weekend that the South Korean Coast Guard's detention of three crewmen from a Chinese ship fishing illegally in South Korean waters 170 miles south of Seoul might aggravate relations with China, North Korea's most important ally, which has sought to defuse the North-South crisis.

It also labelled new US sanctions as "destructive and short-sighted" and warned that they would aggravate relations between the two countries.