During his reign, relations with the British became increasingly strained.

Despite the signing of the treaty, relations between the two countries remained strained.

The recent violence in Khartoum and Juba undoubtedly strained intercommunal relations in those two cities.

Such mass migration will severely hurt already strained social relations in some countries and lead to unpredictable consequences.

With all the attention devoted to strained transatlantic relations, it is easy to overlook how often our preoccupations overlap.

Malawi maintained close relations with South Africa throughout the Apartheid era, which strained Malawi's relationships with other African countries.

Relations with the United States were strained in mid 2006 when Iraq criticized Israeli attacks on Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.

It should be noted by way of context that political relations between the two countries were seriously strained at that time.

Strained political relations among most of Asia s sub regions make a region wide security structure or more effective resource cooperation difficult to achieve.

She spoke of the strained relations between the Cayman Islands and the administering Power and of the ever increasing disparity of their interests.

Instead, relations have been strained by the continuing refusal of Australia s Labour Party government to sell uranium to energy starved India for its civilian nuclear program.

The Turkish led flotilla which attempted to break the blockade of Gaza has strained Turkish Israeli relations, while gaining Turkey much respect in the Arab world.

Although Mr. Hariri carefully avoided this debate, his relations with President Emil Lahoud, who is generally described as the favourite of the Syrian Arab Republic, were strained.

The European Union, though not in need of a reset because of strained ties with its eastern neighbors, is involved in a deep strategic reconstruction of those relations.

A favorite leisure spot, they appear on Brazil s most widely recognized postcard and also offer a less than sunny portrait of the country s strained class and race relations.

French Nuclear testing in the Pacific, and the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior strained French relations with its Allies, South Pacific states (namely New Zealand), and world opinion.

Brotherly tempers started to get strained.

Despite the recent return to Russia of the icon of Our Lady of Kazan that once hung in John Paul s bedroom, relations between the Vatican and the Patriarchate remain strained.

This has been officially admitted, so why reopen the ghastly business now, at a time when rescinding the apology would make Japan s already strained relations with China and South Korea many times worse?

America cannot realistically expect its allies let alone countries like Iran and Venezuela, with which its relations are strained to adopt principled foreign policies when Middle East Realpolitik distorts its own foreign policy.

This constitutional mechanism has been strained by recent events.

Instead of overseeing the government s management of the outbreak, Hirotaka Akamatsu, the minister of agriculture, forestry, and fishing, took a long trip to Cuba to meet Raúl Castro a very strange decision given strained US Japan relations.

In fact, in many countries, the government s capacity is already strained.

We are aware that your heart is strained by what they say .

We are aware that your heart is strained by what they say .

During the reporting period, the political situation in the country remained strained.

The Davis case further complicated Pakistan s relations with the United States, which were already strained because of the military s reluctance to move into North Waziristan a mini state within Pakistan from which the Taliban have launched operations in Afghanistan against US forces.

In 1054, after centuries of strained relations, the Great Schism occurred over differences in doctrine, splitting the Christian world between the Catholic Church, centered in Rome and dominant in the West, and the Orthodox Church, centered in Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.

DAKAR The world economic downturn and financial market tremors have strained budgets across Africa.

Turkey s links with Israel, for example, have been strained by Israeli investment in Kurdistan.

Given the two countries long strained relations, this visit would have been remarkable at any time. But coming as it does only one month after the alarming Russian Georgian confrontation, it may offer real hope that tensions in the volatile Caucasus region can be eased.

As a result, the existing law is here on strained terms with an established practice.

President Barack Obama recently journeyed to Moscow in order to reset strained United States Russian ties.

In some countries, debt servicing has strained valuable resources that could otherwise be channelled to development.

The idea that the world s largest economies are merely facing a short term panic looks increasingly strained.

There was patent gloating about the German defeat everywhere, only thinly disguised behind strained expressions of solidarity.

The Appeals Chamber is bound to be strained as trials are completed by both the ICTR and the ICTY.

Such relations are called external relations, as opposed to the more genuine internal relations.

However, the date coincided with a University of Texas American football team home game, which would have strained Austin's tourism infrastructure.

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Until such changes occur, many challenges will fall through the cracks that exist between a strained Pax Americana and a rebalancing world.

The US Turkish partnership, badly strained by the war in Iraq, was reinvigorated by President Barack Obama s visit to Turkey in June.

A giant crane strained to lift a 12 foot high slab, yanking it back and forth like some dinosaur gnawing its prey.

Somalia Turkey relations are bilateral relations between Somalia and Turkey.

The quality of mercy is not strained that is, constrained, or obligatory she tells Shylock, but rather something that falls freely, like rain.