The phrase "complementary relationship between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe two elements that balance one another. For example, "The complementary relationship between the economy and the environment is vital to a sustainable future."
Moreover, while many Sikhs harboured a marked distaste for celibacy, others accepted the complementary relationship between householders and ascetics that characterizes many Indian religious traditions.
Jagdish Bhagwati, a Columbia professor and leading Indian economist, introduced historian Ramachandra Guha of the London School of Economics, who went on to detail a complicated yet complementary relationship between two of India's dynamic founding fathers.
This was one of those situations where there was almost a complete complementary relationship between what we're doing and the kinds of things they were thinking about doing," Mr. Brill said.
That two of Mr. Cuomo's daughters are starting college at a time that Mr. Obama is promoting higher education was another happy coincidence in the complex, often complementary relationship between the two leaders.
That desire for a complementary relationship between specialty and general advertising is also a goal of New A, which will have 100 employees at five divisions in offices in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto, handling accounts with billings estimated at $40 million for marketers like the E*Trade Group, MCI WorldCom and Metropolitan Life.
This implies a purely complementary relationship between the two sectors.
Complementary relationships between crops can be terminated by the application of the physical law of diminishing returns, however, and give way to competition.
These complementary relationships between plantar and forearm loads implied that weight bearing on the plantar foot was reduced by the subjects' weight being supported by their forearm.
A complementary relationship exists between the sequence of purines (i.e., adenine and guanosine) and pyrimidines (cytosine and thymine) in the DNA comprising a gene and the sequence in mRNA into which this genetic information is transcribed.
