Sentence examples for recent friction from inspiring English sources

The relationship works so well that Claire struggles to think of recent friction.

Despite the recent friction, Ms. Mennella said she hoped the group's efforts would help find Mr. Helt.

And they want to remove the cause of some of the recent friction by bringing their economies into closer harmony.

Other family members, however, blamed recent friction at the Temple Mount which has been blamed for a rash of deadly violence and clashes.

"Obama, We Don't Need You," scrawled a teenage boy, commenting on recent friction between the Turkish and United States governments over Israel's handling of the Gaza aid flotilla.

But recent friction between the Saudi military and American soldiers at the Prince Sultan base in Saudi Arabia have led some senior Pentagon officials to believe that the crown prince's discontent over the administration's Middle East policy had spilled over.

The British decision was the latest turn in Israel's recent frictions with its closest allies.

On that last point he could have been talking about the recent frictions between the two countries over Iran.

In a pointed reference to recent frictions with Japan over a series of historical issues, Li told delegates: "We will safeguard the victory of World War II and the post-war international order, and will not allow anyone to reverse the course of history".

Anger over what is being interpreted as impudent American demands has been building, fanned by other recent frictions — plans for a bigger American Embassy, the use of an American private security firm to protect American diplomats — in what was supposed to be a new era between the United States and Pakistan under President Obama.

The administration is also trying to show that the Defense Department, the State Department and others in the government are broadly in agreement over how to proceed, despite recent frictions over the postwar management of Iraq, where the administration intends to create an interim authority to pave the way for an independent government.