Sentence examples for confidential relationship from inspiring English sources

"And a family relationship like this is a classic case of a confidential relationship," he said.

In a statement, Edutrust said it would not comment on its confidential relationship with its employees.

One condition, Mr. Parella said, is that there is a "confidential relationship" between the parties.

We had nothing approaching a confidential relationship, but we did chat now and then.

Time argues these agreements served only to preserve the confidential relationship between itself and the banks.

The bank might exploit its confidential relationship with its commercial and industrial creditors for the benefit of the fund.

He believed that fresh, confidential relationships could overcome the frustrations of traditional diplomatic bureaucracy.

"When you look at other privileges, like attorney-client or doctor-patient, they arise out of confidential relationships that have a formal quality to them, and there is a powerful and ancient interest in promoting candor," Smolla said.

Especially in the small world of foreign policy and national security, the reporters and columnists for the leading news organizations tend to be assigned to their beats semipermanently, and to have close, confidential relationships with officials.

In her Nov. 10 letter to the editor, Judith Miller confuses the federal shield law issue when she says she went to jail to dramatize the need for journalists to have the same right to protect a confidential source that lawyers, physicians, members of the clergy and others have to protect their confidential relationships.

Those are confidential relationships.