Sentence examples for embattled relationship from inspiring English sources

A seemingly embattled relationship with his father, an accountant, is referred to but not explored.

Their initially embattled relationship abruptly changes after the two are assigned to take food to Anouk (Ms. Ardant), a dying woman with a scandalous past who lives near the seminary.

He recalled how Danny Kaye, who played Noah in "Two by Two," relentlessly sabotaged his fellow performers onstage, and how Liv Ullmann's telephone audition for "I Remember Mama," in which she sang a lullaby in Norwegian, was the first sign that she and Mr. Charnin would have an embattled relationship.

Startups and PR firms have long had a halting, if not embattled relationship.

What makes the acquisition compelling — beyond the simple question of why anyone would want to become the latest in a long line of owners — is the Uzans' embattled relationship with former Vertu owner, Nokia.

The other major strand of the story is Charlie's embattled relationship with the school's principal.

The strongest portions of "The Little Friend" deal not with Harriet's vigilante actions but with her mundane, day-to-day life: her contentious relationship with her sickly, woebegone mother; her affectionate reliance on the family housekeeper, Ida, who is summarily let go after decades of service; her loving, if sometimes embattled relationships with her grandmother and great-aunts.

What's more, historically, parts of the Middle East have had embattled relationships with supporting female entrepreneurship — not to mention women's rights.

Over time, however, the incumbents in educational LMS space, broadly speaking, have come to know embattled relationships with their users, and have seen lagging growth as a result.

The male characters remain subsidiary in a story, adapted from two novels by Rebecca Wells, whose theme is the healing of embattled mother-daughter relationships.

It is also the story of an embattled fraternal relationship (both Kazantsakis brothers resemble Ringo Starr) whose bond survives Illias's betrayals.