Sentence examples for maintaining good ties from inspiring English sources

Both candidates promised reforms to build a strong and democratic state, maintaining good ties with both Russia and the European Union.

With Karl Rove's help, Mr. Bush has managed a careful balance, maintaining good ties with the Christian right without doing so publicly enough to terrify other voters.

Continuing aid as if nothing happened would reinforce the perception among Egyptians that all America cares about is maintaining good ties with unaccountable generals and that President Obama's policy has little to do with building democratic institutions and empowering the "masses" as his administration so often claims.

"No other nation is respected by Hamas, Hizbullah, and the Taliban while also maintaining good ties with the Israeli, Lebanese, and Afghan governments," Kinzer writes.

Even the powerful military was keen to maintain good ties to a perceived bulwark against radical Islam.

He maintained good ties with local officials from his days as mayor of Lincoln, the state's second-largest city.

In the cold war, the Karelia dispute was taboo in neutral Finland, which maintained good ties with the Soviet Union.

Although the United States has vetoed more U.N. Security Council resolutions since 1972 than any other permanent member, often to forestall criticism of Israel, Washington maintains good ties with moderate Arab states.

In an interview on Wednesday, Mr. Thompson's wife, Sue Ann, said it was "only natural" for him to maintain good ties with such an important corporate citizen.

But America wants the DPP to show it can maintain good ties with China; it does not want to be sucked into a conflict that might erupt should China lose patience.

The outcome was more muddled for domestic politics in Armenia, one of the smaller states of the former Soviet Union, which has historically maintained good ties with both Russia and the United States and is strategic for its proximity to Iran.