Sentence examples for potential friction from inspiring English sources

The Israeli-backed militia men are another potential friction point, and their fate is unclear.

Mrs. Clinton quickly forced Mr. Crowley out, defusing any potential friction.

Turkey's illegal occupation of Cyprus is at the root of any tension or potential friction on the island.

But Mr. Markey said he saw potential friction stemming from the American openness to reconciliation with the Taliban.

In a foretaste of the potential friction, both Pasok and the Democratic Left said their MPs would jointly support the conservative-led administration but not actively participate in it.

Its main message is that universities need to work with local authorities, residents' groups and private landlords, as well as their own students' unions to tackle potential friction before conflicts become entrenched.

In this paper we use a quantitative model to explore the potential frictions that distinguish emerging market business cycles from developed small open economies.

But the solidarity could be threatened by potential frictions between the some 500 people who have filed individual lawsuits and the thousands who would only benefit from a mass settlement.

To tamp down potential frictions, the Ministry of Defense had warned supporters of Mr. Massoud, an ethnic Tajik from the Panjshir Valley who was assassinated by the Taliban in 2001, against parading through the streets with flags and portraits.

The fact that the Justice Department did not talk with the Pentagon about how to handle a major case that had been perceived as a likely test case for a military tribunal is significant because it suggests what Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, referred to as potential "frictions" between the departments.

After establishing these rules and potential frictions with cross-border capital raising, we present new hand-collected data on how the number of SEC-registered foreign issuers has decreased over time and discuss the state of the international market for IPOs, including case studies of the UK's Alternative Investment Market (AIM and USS.