Mr. Erdogan's sharp remarks seemed to severely dent Turkey's already fraught talks on joining the European Union.
A number of cross-border attacks have added layers of complexity to an already fraught relationship between Israel and Egypt.
In an already fraught situation, sometimes it seems easier, and kinder, to continue the antibiotic than upset a family.
When I became a vegan at 19, my meat-eating parents worried my already fraught relationship with food was deteriorating.
The dispute over the bears injects one more note of tension into a region already fraught with problems.
But it is also placing serious new strains on already fraught relations between China and the US.
That would increase the tension in an already fraught situation in Syria, where a civil war has been raging for more than two years.
The Prime Minister knows that a humiliating result for the Liberal Democrats would add to the strain on an already fraught Coalition.
An influx of returning jihadists in Libya is injecting a radical ideological element to a transition already fraught with ethnic and tribal tensions.
The attack has underscored the urgency of the challenge that Sinai now presents for both sides, and added layers of complexity to an already fraught relationship.
Turkey has launched fresh air strikes against both Isis and Kurdish positions further complicating an already fraught alliance of forces opposing the extremist organisation.
