Sentence examples for tested relations from inspiring English sources

Page A8 AN ARREST STRAINS RELATIONS In a case that has tested relations between Beijing and Seoul, a prominent South Korean campaigner for democracy in North Korea has been under detention in China for more than two months, and South Korean officials said that he was being denied access to consular services and a lawyer.

The accusations by American investigators have tested relations between the United States and both countries.

Telefónica bought control of Vivo in July 2010 from its joint venture partner, Portugal Telecom after a three-year struggle that tested relations between Spain and Portugal.

Russia's conflicts with Ukraine and Georgia tested relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and its counterparts in the other two countries during 2008.

There was no indication whether the passport used the identity of a genuine UK national, as happened in a case earlier this year that severely tested relations between Britain and Israel.

In this study, we tested relations between mothers' dispositional mindfulness and neural responses to their own infant in different emotion-eliciting contexts.

That accessibility is now sorely testing relations between the Buddhist monks and the government of Hong Kong, which administers this outlying island.

The revelations are particularly likely to test relations between New Zealand and Fiji, the island nation headed by Frank Bainimarama, the army chief-turned-prime minister.

But since those pennies add up to hundreds of millions of dollars a year in interconnection fees, this has become one of the thorniest trade squabbles to test relations between the two nations.

The potentially toxic allegation that Britain has a listening station in the capital of a close European Union ally will test relations between London and Berlin only days after the row between Germany and the US about its own clandestine activities.

In the process, she is testing relations with her Ecuadorean ally, President Rafael Correa, who is trying to get Chevron to pay $19 billion in damages related to oil pollution in the Amazon rain forest.