The phrase "and the difficult relationship" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a challenging or complex connection between people, groups, or concepts.
Example: "The report highlighted the challenges faced by the organization, including the difficult relationship between management and staff."
Alternatives: "and the strained relationship" or "and the challenging relationship".
Dimitry Kochenov, Ius Tractum of Many Faces: European Citizenship and the Difficult Relationship between Status and Rights, 15 COLUM.
In the documentary, he also talked about his alcohol abuse and the difficult relationship he had with his father.
The initial ineptitude of the police and the difficult relationship they had with the Aboriginal community could have continued to stymie the families' pursuit of justice.
The history of computing, cybernetics and AI are reinterpreted through cognitive perameters, and the difficult relationship between the logic of cognitive science and the "intelligence" of art (or "situated cognition") is amply debated making the reading of this book a desirable, intense and informed experience.
Part memoir, part history and part cultural criticism, "Astro Turf" chronicles the early days of rocket science and other midcentury masculine obsessions, and explores the difficult relationship between Lord and her father, an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech.
Meg has met Julie's parents a number of times and notes the difficult relationship between Julie and her overprotective mother.
On that occasion he was a kind of mascot, and as Richard Aldous notes in his book Reagan and Thatcher: the Difficult Relationship: "Churchillian rhetoric would become a consistent and well-choreographed feature of Reagan and Thatcher's shared public performances".
Having known the important influence of an American intellectual center in the heart of Belgrade and realizing the difficult relationship between Washington and Belgrade at that time (mid-nineties), it seemed inconceivable to me that the US Government would give up such an important diplomatic tool.
Mohl was the first 'anti-Carter' person we sat down with - although he wouldn't be the last - and he epitomises the difficult relationship between the black community and the police.
Alys Conran on her new novel, Dignity, which features a woman controlled by her husband in the British Raj, her daughter, whose life was shaped by the difficult relationship, and a young second generation immigrant who works as a carer.
