Sentence examples for semi-friend from inspiring English sources

The tripartite discussions in Beijing involving China, the closest North Korea has to a semi-friend, were a face-saving formula.

China's readiness to sit at the table means that Mr Kim will hear from his semi-friend and economic supporter, not just hated America, that his weapons-building has to stop.

The other five, but especially China, his semi-friend, need to deliver the same message: the deal is not for renegotiation; oil will flow only as fast as Mr Kim meets his obligations; and until then sanctions too, including those imposed by the UN Security Council after the 2006 bomb test, will be properly enforced by all.

He was therefore incensed in July when China, his semi-friend of last resort, finally backed a toughly worded United Nations resolution, sponsored by Japan, that condemned his provocative missile tests earlier that month and called on governments around the world to help curb his missile trading.

After he is diagnosed with a fatal disease, he becomes semi-friends with Ira Wright, a struggling comic, and then pursues his lost love, Laura.

Only, instead of burgers and Becks in a back garden, it's Michelin-starred restaurants and fine wine, with the two comedians travelling – as semi-friends – across the north of England, Italy and, in the latest series, Spain.

She had semi-famous friends.

Schofield's assets include fairly good Knicks season tickets and at least one semi-famous friend.

This was a match which should have been dedicated to absent, and semi-absent, friends.

It's Timothy he's thinking about, of course, the nights when he never came home, those God-awful semi-homeless friends, the smell of them.

For years he maintained a barely veiled alliance with Colombia's FARC guerrillas, allowing them to use Venezuela as a base.Argentina's Cristina Fernández and her husband and predecessor, Néstor Kirchner, were semi-detached friends and clients.