Sentence examples for maintain friendly ties from inspiring English sources

Turkī tried to maintain friendly ties with the Ottoman governors of Iraq, as he accepted nominal Ottoman sovereignty, and with the British.

Since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, China has been the only major power to maintain friendly ties with Pyongyang.

Crowds in Tehran, meanwhile, were chanting "Death to China!"Yin Gang, a Middle East analyst at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says China's overarching objective in the region is to maintain friendly ties with its four main groups: Arabs, Turks, Persians and Jews.

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.

On the international front too, Lugo was controversial: though he continued to maintain friendly ties to the U.S., he also made overtures toward the populist regime of Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.

Artists who don't acknowledge this, he said, are simply trying to have it both ways, promoting shows in the West while maintaining friendly ties with China.

The North's official Korean Central News Agency made no mention of the concession and instead quoted Choe as saying Pyongyang was committed to maintaining friendly ties with Beijing.

Gorbachev's permissive attitude toward Central and Eastern Europe did not initially extend to Soviet territory; even Bush, who strove to maintain friendly relations, condemned the January 1991 killings in Latvia and Lithuania, privately warning that economic ties would be frozen if the violence continued.

Russia has tried to maintain friendly relations with North Korea, its ally during the cold war, even as it has sought to broaden ties with South Korea.

His rule was not as militant as that of Govinda III as he preferred to maintain friendly relations with his neighbours, the Gangas, the Eastern Chalukyas and the Pallavas with whom he also cultivated marital ties.

He says Syria wants to maintain friendly relations with Jordan.