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China is North Korea's biggest benefactor, but relations have been strained in recent months.

The relationship between the activist investor and ADP has been strained in recent weeks.

But relations between the two countries have been strained in recent decades.

The Bush administration's relations with the Saudis have been strained in recent months.

On Friday, Mr. Brown and Mr. Sarkozy — whose relations have been strained in recent weeks —held a joint news conference.

Ties between Berlin and Moscow have been strained in recent months by the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

It's no secret that your relationship with Summitt was strained in recent years and that she wouldn't play UConn.

While some theorists like to claim that rap is a direct desendant of the West African griot tradition, relations between Malian rappers and griots have been strained, especially in recent years.

Russia's agreement to give Mr. Snowden refuge added further tension to a relationship with the United States that has been deeply strained in recent months, and it was a major factor in a decision by the White House to cancel a planned summit meeting between President Obama and President Vladimir V. Putin that had been scheduled for early September.

Although passage of the legislation was expected, the new acrimony further imperils a relationship that has been deeply strained in recent months, particularly by disagreements over how to stem the violence in Syria.

Two White House officials — Lawrence H. Summers, the director of the National Economic Council, and Thomas E. Donilon, the deputy national security adviser — held meetings in Beijing on Monday and Tuesday that were aimed not at fashioning new pacts, but at maintaining a dialogue that had been strained at times in recent months.