Sentence examples for thorny relations from inspiring English sources

Malaysia's perennially thorny relations with neighbouring Singapore continued during negotiations to replace a causeway joining the two countries.

Soundview has been through investigations before, which Mr. Espada ascribed to his thorny relations with the Bronx Democratic organization.

Other major issues will be the flourishing drugs trade and thorny relations with both neighbours and world and regional powers.

After a decade-long buying spree, Harvard owns more land in Boston than in its historic home in Cambridge, where the hemmed-in university has thorny relations with its neighbors.

Their arrest complicates Washington's already thorny relations with the North, including an increase in tensions over North Korea's plan to launch a satellite between April 4 and April 8.

The episode underscored the thorny relations between the Koreas since Mr. Lee took office in early 2008 and adopted a tough approach toward North Korea.North Korea may have hoped that the clash would highlight its longstanding argument that the Korean War never officially ended, analysts in Seoul said.

But membership in the W.T.O. is still not certain for Russia, which has had thorny trade relations with several countries.

While the agreement may solve the thorny public relations problems for the city and the union, it does nothing to address the more costly absent teacher reserve pool, which consists of teachers who have lost their jobs because of budget cuts or when a school is shut down for poor performance, but have not been accused of incompetence or wrongdoing.

And while Sturrock is frank about Dahl's zealous youthful womanizing, about his gambling and drinking and the notorious fits of ill temper that soured many friendships and professional connections, he treads gingerly around the question of Dahl's ­anti-Semitism, for example, and around what were obviously thorny family relations.

He also must manage thorny economic relations with China even as Trump's trade team plans tough measures against the Asian export powerhouse.

He also discussed the thorny issue of relations with India after talks over their December series were put on hold following a protest at the offices of the Board of Control for Cricket in India on Monday.