Sentence examples for straining diplomatic from inspiring English sources
Malaysia continues to endure heavy-handed criticism from China regarding a lack of transparency of Prime Minister Najib Razek and senior cabinet members, straining diplomatic relations.
He instructed the police to release her from custody, he says, because he thought that she was a niece of the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and he wanted to avoid straining diplomatic relations.
Just before Thanksgiving, the F.B.I. pulled O'Neill out of Yemen, apparently as a concession to Ambassador Bodine, who felt that the F.B.I. presence was straining diplomatic relations between America and Yemen.
9.36am GMT Diplomatic tensions Algeria's apparently unilateral decision to storm the gas plant is straining diplomatic relations with some of the countries whose nationals were held hostage: AFP reports that Japan's foreign ministry has summoned the Algerian ambassador to demand answers over the operation.
The haze has blanketed Singapore and Malaysia as well, straining diplomatic ties, and has recently drifted northwards to affect southern Thailand and the Philippines.
The Saudis have normal if strained diplomatic relations with Iran.
The detentions in July rocked the global steel industry and strained diplomatic relations between China and Australia.
His refusal to support that effort strained diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the United States at the time.
As a result, presidents worry more than lawmakers about how sanctions might prompt economic retaliation or strain diplomatic ties.
The Senate passed a nearly identical bill in February, after a decade-long standoff that strained diplomatic relations and cast the United States in the role of wealthy deadbeat.
Even with advance notice, the airstrike has threatened cooperation, or rather lack of interference, and strained diplomatic relations between the United States and Russia.
