Sentence examples for brittle relationship from inspiring English sources

Wilpon and Doubleday have had a brittle relationship.

In fact, the increasingly brittle relationship between the mayor and sheriff is the best thing about "Jasper, Texas".

The phonecall, which Macri has not commented on, proved the last straw for the already brittle relationship between the two.

Directed by Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin, this uneven, slow-brewed film begins by observing a brittle relationship about to crumble, but it is better at portraying how the exacting standards of food professionals can lead to personal grief.

And the more intensely he understood the often-brittle relationship between police and the public.

Without the UN, we would be left with increasingly brittle "state-on-state" relationships, with little remaining to mediate, negotiate or resolve inter-state crises when they arise.

Test results indicated that, without compressible foam, the CCFPT cylinders resembled the FW cylinders in stress strain relationships with brittle failures upon FRP rupture and immediately-followed PVC fracture due to sudden transfer in confining pressure.

For micro-brittle fracture mode, the relationship for the material removal rate, considering direct impact of abrasive grains on the workpiece, based on a simple fracture mechanics analysis has been established.

On the other hand, the U-U1 specimen also shows brittle behavior in the load displacement relationship, but it did not collapse, as the UHPFRC face resisted after the peak load, without delamination.

Today, a co-dependent relationship between a brittle, authoritarian central government and jittery populace persists, reinforced by quintessentially Chinese characteristics: a judiciary branch that must advance Party interests, non-transparent eminent domain, pervasive corruption at all levels of society and a lack of checks and balances within the Party.

Chances are it had a direct relationship to your own brittle ego.