Sentence examples for develop closer relations from inspiring English sources

Saudi leaders, particularly the newly powerful ʿAbd Allāh, began to develop closer relations with Iran.

American and European politicians have frequently raised concerns about the medics' fate, but at the same time have gone on to develop closer relations with Libya.

So there is a lot at stake for the EU, as it tries to develop closer relations with its eastern neighbours.

With the objective to develop closer relations with its neighbours following the 2004 enlargement, the EU launched the European Neighbourhood Policy European Commissionn, 2003), which further contributed to the transfer of the European "best practices" in the field of migration management.

The elections also should help Mongolia's moves to loosen its extremely close 69-year-old ties with the Soviet Union and to develop closer relations with rich industrialized democracies.

For South Africa, one prominent attraction of membership is the opportunity to develop closer relations with China.

The campaign built a network of local offices across the key swing states unmatched by any previous election, which allowed them to develop close relations with voters at neighbourhood level.

The angler soon returned to develop close relations with the Bolshevik leaders, especially Karl Radek, the shrewd, ebullient chief of Western propaganda, who, it may be inferred, played him like a balalaika.

"The Chinese develop close relations with the elites of those countries — and there are often generous payoffs — and then they leverage the relationships to gain support for their positions in the U.N. and the World Trade Organization".

Succeeding his cousin Prince Michael III of Serbia on July 2 , 1868 Milan was dominated during the first years of his reign by a regency that adopted a seemingly liberal constitution in 1869, tried to develop close relations with Austria, and made Milan generally unpopular.

Although many Serb political figures preferred to develop close relations with Russia rather than with Austria, Milan favoured the pro-Austrian policy: he appointed pro-Austrian ministers, concluded trade and tariff agreements that made Serbia's economy dependent on Austria's, and secretly pledged to conclude no treaties with other governments without Austria's approval (1881).