Sentence examples for fractious partnership from inspiring English sources

The fractious partnership of Iris (Marina Foïs) and Nadine (Karin Viard) — and the hard times they each have with the men in their lives — is a major dramatic axis.

B10 BUSINESS DAY C1-16 Viacom's Karmazin Quits Mel Karmazin stepped down as president and chief operating officer of Viacom, ending his fractious partnership with the company's chairman and chief executive.

[C3.] Diller's Company to Sell Stake in Vivendi Universal Barry Diller's IAC/Interactive Corporation agreed to sell its 5.4percentt stake in Vivendi Universal Entertainment for $3.4 billion, ending a fractious partnership and allowing Mr. Diller to focus on his Internet businesses.

It could be a fractious partnership.

The Everly Brothers, the Beach Boys, the Kinks and Oasis were all fractious partnerships.

Taking foreign businessmen hostage is rare in China, despite the thousands of often fractious business partnerships between Chinese and foreign companies.

He cited opinion polls showing that many in England — a majority, in one recent survey — favor Scotland's breaking away, rather than continuing with what has often been, at least politically, a fractious and sometimes embittered partnership.

They have been encouraged in this by a division of the country into two largely autonomous units: a Serb Republic dominated by Serbs, and a federation dominated by Croats and Muslims in uneasy partnership..In this section The fractious Kosovars A civil self-service George Papandreou, flouting Greek tradition Are they too clever by half?

IN APRIL 2009, shortly after becoming president of the United States, Barack Obama attended a 34-country Summit of the Americas in Trinidad where he charmed those present even Venezuela's Hugo Chávez with a call for the often fractious relationship between the United States and its neighbours to become an "equal partnership".

Ms. Jarcho is intent on mapping the mysteries and difficulties of partnerships, and every section of "Grimly Handsome" deals with fractious twosomes and uneasy threesomes; three, here, represents something more unsettling than a crowd.

Six hours by plane from Brussels, in the heart of Russia's oil-producing region, the union and Russia on Friday opened long-awaited negotiations on a new partnership agreement, saying that a "new page" had been turned in their fractious dealings.