Sentence examples for strained talks from inspiring English sources

The Greek finance minister said the atmosphere had eased after previously strained talks between Athens and its creditors and a deal could be signed before the end of October.

Unsurprisingly, Hunt's proposals have resulted in three months of strained talks with the British Medical Association BMAand and caused doctors to protest in unprecedented numbers.

The announcement by Speaker John A. Boehner that Republicans would not settle for the $33 billion in cuts that Senate Democrats and the White House have portrayed as the agreed-upon middle ground in the spending fight added a new complication to already-strained talks between House negotiators and the Senate leadership.

A spate of combat in southeast Turkey is unraveling three years of strained peace talks between Ankara and Kurdish militants, who waged a three-decade-long insurgency against the Turkish state.

Tehran and Washington, in spite of their historically strained ties, talk to each other regularly now.

In between its strained and sporadic contract talks with the Bloomberg administration, the union representing New York City teachers has quietly been gauging public support for a strike and considering whether and when the city's 80,000 teachers should walk off the job.

EXTRA POINTS Tight end JEREMY SHOCKEY has missed two games with a strained right knee and talked about playing Sunday.

A Strained Naturalness As Torrance talked to the hotel manager and his staff, in those fussily arranged frames, the tinge of artificiality in the line readings made it seem as if everybody was trying a little too hard to seem natural.

"Isn't it because people are always dueling and falling down wells?" "Yes and wearing strained facial expressions and talking incredible and unnatural dialogue".

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6 Strained Ties With South Korea The talk in Seoul in recent weeks has been of emerging from the shadow of the United States and of refocusing foreign relations within its own region.