And maintaining friendly and accessible customer service has been a challenge.
Meanwhile, Citigroup has specifically created an innovation networking team for venture capital, maintaining friendly and close relationships with universities, design companies, and other partners in venture capital.
I would often be asked why I chose to study a languages degree and I'd always proudly explain that the UK was a part of the EU and that we needed to learn to work closely with our neighbours and maintain friendly relations – by studying about their history, their cultures, their languages.
Well, when I say tough, I mean as tough as life gets when you're stupendously wealthy via royalties from a seemingly unending arsenal of hummable pop hits, are in peak physical shape and maintain friendly terms with your A-list film star ex‑spouse.
Abroad, the new leader will seek to maintain friendly ties with the US and the West, while trying to improve relations with those countries that supported Mr Morsi - Turkey and Qatar and, to some extent, Iran.
Externally, the new leader will have to maintain friendly strategic relations with both the West and Arab countries.
Turkī tried to maintain friendly ties with the Ottoman governors of Iraq, as he accepted nominal Ottoman sovereignty, and with the British.
He says Syria wants to maintain friendly relations with Jordan.
Off the bench, the three judges maintain friendly relations.
If not, come spring, neighbors who maintain friendly relations all winter can find those relations sorely strained.
