Sentence examples for strained ties from inspiring English sources

The president has improved sometimes strained ties with the United States.

Trade spats, incoherent policy priorities, and mutual suspicions over climate agendas have all strained ties.

For those who oppose opening the fields to foreigners, the strained ties gives them another chip".

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

"Beijing has no interest in seeing strained ties affecting development plans either".

The trial comes against the backdrop of strained ties between Cairo and Doha.

But it promises to put new pressures on Japan's already strained ties with the United States, its closest ally.

The Iranian president's visit to Syria coincides with efforts by the United States to improve strained ties with both nations.

His political alliance has gradually weakened, and his main foreign backer, Saudi Arabia, has repaired its own strained ties with Syria.

And, despite strained ties, the top brass would surely first turn to China for reassurance, says Hahm Chai-bong of the Asan Institute, a South Korean think-tank.

The treaty was born in the days after Mr. Obama's election as president in 2008, when he decided to "reset" strained ties with Russia.