For three years the joint-kings maintained an uneasy peace with one another, but on the fourth year hostilities finally broke out.
In 2008 Dudley was the boss of the oil and gas group's profitable joint venture, TNK-BP: an uneasy alliance with four Russian oligarchs.
Scores of theorists have turned Hawking's arguments around and poked them from every angle, trying to find where the weak joint might lie in the uneasy combination of quantum theory and relativity.
The following season the pair were reunited at Team Sky, in a joint act that was sometimes uneasy as the British team struggled to reconcile Cavendish's need for a sprint train and Wiggins's desire to win the Tour.
We just say, 'Yeah, that stuff could happen in the future.' " That uneasy contradiction was on display recently, when a joint Canadian-American patrol visited a village, Khoushab, about two miles from the airport.
The effect is one of Shakespearean grandeur, of a world out of joint, seeming literally to be spinning off its axis as this uneasy pair, who are far from a couple, find themselves thrown together, making their way together, in ways that neither of them can yet suspect.
BEIJING — An armada of Chinese and Russian warships sailed in ceremonial formation in the Sea of Japan, off the port of Vladivostok, on Wednesday in what was the high point of joint naval exercises intended to show the growing unity between two countries with a historically uneasy relationship.
As the joint gets passed from hand-to-mouth-to-mouth-to-hand, Justin begins to feel uneasy.
A joint telephone call by the two rivals to the press to announce the new arrangements masks an uneasy truce.Mr Rehman will run the all-important Waziristan region.
