Sentence examples for strained alliance from inspiring English sources

The Sandinistas, now in a strained alliance with the Aleman party in the National Assembly, said they favored efforts to compensate people whose property was given to others.

Amylin, a San Diego biotechnology company, and Lilly announced Tuesday morning that they were dissolving their strained alliance over the diabetes drug exenatide, with all rights to the drug reverting to Amylin.

The conversation, eight days after the attack, overcame the reservations of some Defense Department officials and favored an approach suggested by diplomats who had urged a conciliatory gesture to try to repair the strained alliance between the two countries.

A3 Bush and Korean Leader Meet President Bush and South Korea's leader, Roh Moo Hyun, tried to shore up a sometimes strained alliance as Washington and Seoul pursue different strategies to deal with North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

Even as they pledged support for the United States' deeply strained alliance with Pakistan, several top American officials said it was difficult to believe that Bin Laden could have spent years in a town populated by current and former Pakistani military officers — with a Pakistani military academy close by — without the complicity of some in the country's government.

In a bid to regain control of a peace process with the Taliban that had suddenly spun out of control, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on Wednesday slammed the brakes on two strategic lines of American negotiation, again exercising his power in a strained alliance and getting results.

We must take the fight to the enemy regardless of the cost in lives, dollars, strained alliances, and our international reputation.

Think what it could do for the strained trans-Atlantic alliance to have France buy the New York Yankees, with President Jacques Chirac cheering wildly as the Yankees won another championship.

Still, a number of experts say it could take years for NATO to emerge as an effective global military alliance, partly because of strained budgets in Europe, enormous gaps in military capacity among member countries and political divisions over America's role as the dominant power.

That bond, though strained, is unbroken.

A new alliance with Turkey has been forged, strained relations with Saudi Arabia eased and ties with Sarkozy's France strengthened, all while maintaining its links with Iran.