Sentence examples for familiar relationship from inspiring English sources

The investigators recommended administrative action for "failure to discipline a subordinate" and "fostering an unduly familiar relationship".

"I do not agree with the conclusion that General Cartwright maintained an 'unduly familiar relationship' with his aide," Mr. Mabus wrote.

The cattle egret's dependence on domestic stock to flush insects, as an alternative to wild herbivores, brings it into a familiar relationship with human beings.

In fact, the playwright seems intent on not letting her darker themes overwhelm the familiar relationship between a nudging Jewish mother and her eye-rolling son.

The McCain campaign has been tight-lipped about the expanded family tree: "Mrs. McCain was raised as the only child of Jim and Marguerite Hensley, and there was no familiar relationship with any other sibling," it said in a statement.

This curious yet strangely familiar relationship (the stuff of Missed Connections on Craigslist) is the prelude to a horrifying ordeal in the woods experienced by Mark, Sarah and her husband, Nate (Alex Draper).

Brubaker uses his cast's familiar relationships to reflect the way nostalgia glosses over the grimness of the past with cartoonish simplicity.

Creativity may include the development of new systems, the transfer of familiar relationships to new situations, or the formation of new associations (De Bono, 1976; Florida, 2003; Stain, 1975; Tharp, 2003; Xanthacou & Kaila, 2011).

Handel's "Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies" is an example of these more familiar relationships, that is, it should be easy to make out the familiar harmonic relationships it shares with Believer (as well as with many other pop, classical and baroque pieces).

Race may be the film's central theme, but this sexy, sometimes ungainly soap opera also looks at sexual mores, familiar relationships and the cultural differences between urban and rural Brazil.

Leaving family and familiar relationships to go to college requires a level of independence and reliance on one's inner resources for which an individual may not be prepared.