Sentence examples for maintaining a cordial from inspiring English sources

Although both men work hard at maintaining a cordial relationship, the tension between them at meetings is sometimes so excruciating that, as one former staffer put it, "you don't know where to look".

Essentially, this meant maintaining a cordial but careful relationship with the court and its complex system of reigning, retired, and cloistered emperors and with the great aristocracy of Kyōto, who wished an end to the bakufu system.

There's also a kind of death by flashbulb, in the eighth episode of the first season: Elizabeth, on her first tour of the Commonwealth, is pressed to keep up a months-long smile; a slow-motion sequence finds her soul quite justifiably retreating from her eyes under the strain of maintaining a cordial rictus as she waves to her public from an open car.

Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was still trying to avoid war through appeasement with Nazi Germany and maintaining a cordial relationship with Adolf Hitler.

She maintained a cordial relationship with Glenn, who had visitation rights with the children every other weekend.

While the two countries did not agree on everything, Mr. Straw and Mr. Kharrazi have since maintained a cordial dialogue.

Clinton's tenure at State was otherwise mostly free from controversy, and she maintained a cordial relationship with the press corps.

He said he would strive to live up to the example set by Representative Morris Udall, a Democrat, and Senator Barry Goldwater, a Republican — two Arizonans who maintained a cordial political rivalry during their long careers in Congress.

Mr. Ravitch and Mr. Paterson, who not so long ago was himself the lieutenant governor, say they have maintained a cordial personal relationship and socialize, often having dinner or drinks together at the Executive Mansion.

Although Valentine has maintained a cordial relationship with the Wilpon family, including Fred Wilpon, the principal owner, and his son Jeff, the chief operating officer, it would be surprising if they would happily sell the team to a group that included Valentine, however small Valentine's financial interest might be.

He secretly sent an emissary to London, met with the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, whom he urged to refuse free passage of Adolf Hitler's army to North Africa, and maintained a cordial relationship with Admiral William Leahy, the U.S. ambassador to Vichy until 1942.