Sentence examples for cosy relations from inspiring English sources

Then there is China's expansion into Africa, particularly its cosy relations with genocidal Sudan.

This can make for rather cosy relations between particular operators and handset makers.

Concern over its cosy relations with Iran, despite that country's refusal to suspend suspect nuclear work, has run particularly high.

Qatar, by contrast, continues to enjoy cosy relations with the Brothers across the region but wants to clobber Sunni jihadists.

Yet Mexico's trade unions seem surprisingly little altered.For most of the seven decades of the PRI's rule, the unions have had cosy relations with government.

The Arabic service's head, Waddah Khanfur, and his news editor, Ahmed Sheikh, are both West Bank Palestinians said to enjoy cosy relations with Hamas.

At the prime minister's request, the judge had probed Fleet Street's sordid corners: the phone-hacking, the bullying of celebrities and crime victims, the too-cosy relations with police and politicians.

Boris Johnson, the London mayor, has rejected allegations of over-cosy relations between officials and a Chinese company chosen to run a multibillion-pound development project in London, also denying any knowledge of claims that the firm which won the contract was involved in forced evictions in Beijing.

In recent years Russia has played a canny game of divide and rule against the EU, building cosy bilateral relations with Germany and Italy especially, but also with Austria, Bulgaria, the Netherlands and Greece.That makes other countries, and many Eurocrats, uneasy.

Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, exploits its position in east European countries that struggle to find alternative suppliers; Poland pays 40% more than Germany for gas, for example.Hungary, which enjoys cosy energy relations with Russia, hates the plan.

That is, the risks of too cosy a relation to governments that provide an umbilical cord of sought after funding.