Sentence examples for preserve relations from inspiring English sources

The MoD had asked for the evidence and judgment in the case to stay secret to protect national security and preserve relations with the Afghan government.

All the same, the British government's response was to seek to preserve relations with Putin, and to avoid any public accounting of what had occurred.

The collision of Chinese and American military aircraft in 2001 led to a crisis that was defused only because then-President Jiang Zemin was determined to preserve relations with Washington.

When the force settled the case in 1990, they did not mention any such acceptance of wrongdoing and said the settlement was mostly done to preserve relations with mining communities, and move on.

A blueprint, backed by everyone from German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, would allow Israeli globalists to argue that the die is cast; that the situation in Gaza must be changed; that they alone can preserve relations with Washington and save Israel from international isolation.

Putting a best face on the North Korean disregard for the Feb. 29 agreement, an Asian diplomat with long experience in dealing with North Korea, who requested anonymity to preserve relations with officials in Pyongyang, said it was possible that Mr. Kim, a Foreign Ministry official, was not told of the North Korean's military plans for a satellite missile launching.

For years, the Obama Administration and American businesses declined to discuss the breadth of attacks traced to China, in the hope of quietly solving the problem and preserving relations.

Whereas t-entailment is a generalization of the standard truth-preserving relation, f-entailment incorporates the idea of non-falsity preservation (cf. Dunn 2000, p.10).

Improvement is a satisfiability preserving relation: improvement of constraint set (P) is the process of finding a least general substitution (S) such that (S,P) preserves the set of satisfiable instances of (P) [3].

"Turkey would like to preserve its relations with Israel and once our expectations are met, we will start normalizing our relations," he said.

The papacy had also worked to preserve good relations.