Sentences with phrase «in tense relationships»

Real Sophie and Ethan agree to spend fifteen minutes each with their respective fantasy beaux just to figure out what's happening, but like in any tense relationship drama, greener grass begets green - eyed jealousy.

Last week marked a new low in the tense relationship between Indiana's top elected and appointed education officials

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We know that directing a CEO on day - to - day operations will result in a tense and less than productive relationship.

Other impacts of depression in the workplace include absenteeism (missing work), tense work relationships or conflicts, and receiving verbal or written disciplinary action as a result of depression.

The meeting is a sign that Sino - Indian relations may be thawing after a tense period of military standoffs at the Doklam border last year seriously affected the relationship between the two countries, which share a border in the Himalayas.

The movie is packed with too many funny cameos to list succinctly, and the truth is that very few of them matter outside of the dynamic between Tommy and Greg, a tense relationship of give and take between two amateur actors who both want to make it in Hollywood.

Watkins has been in the top job for more than three years and she inherited a mess, including a product portfolio dominated by premium high - priced products largely in decline as well as a tense relationship with major shareholder The Coca - Cola Company (TCCC).

The report adds that Raiola has already set up a tense relationship with the club over his wage demands for Pogba and ideas on where he should be played in the side, and this latest claim is undoubtedly not going to go down well with the club.

The playmaker, who has always enjoyed a tense relationship with the media in Turkey, is a target for Arsenal this summer but is currently on international duty.

There has been speculation on and off as to whether Miner's tense relationship with Cuomo has cost her city, particularly given the governor's close alliance with another local elected officials with whom the mayor must frequently work — Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, a Republican who crossed party lines in 2014 to endorse the governor's reelection bid.

As my colleague Zeeshan Aleem writes, although the Obama administration gave Israel a bigger military aid package than any US president in history, and has vetoed past UN condemnations of settlements, Obama had a «tense and at times outright hostile relationship with the right - wing Netanyahu.»

Wolfson said that Cuomo and Bloomberg, who had a tense relationship when both were in office, had agreed on the need for pension reform to lessen the burden on taxpayers.

The bad blood grew worse early on when de Blasio sought to unseat Republicans in key swing districts, making the relationship with the Senate Republicans tense.

But with Mr. de Blasio's tense relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the spotlight, and with the Senate in the hands of Republicans unenthusiastic about many of his plans, accomplishing his priorities this year may not be any easier for the mayor.

The two have a tense relationship, with de Blasio accusing Cuomo publicly of undermining him in Albany.

But a youth protest against him, stones pelting one of his delegation's vehicles and a botched grenade attack on French troops, hours before his arrival in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, showed the hostility that still lingers after decades of an often tense France - Africa relationship.

The mainly ethnically Berber Rif region has long had a tense relationship with Morocco's central authorities, and was at the heart of Arab Spring - inspired protests in 2011.

Mrs Charlotte Osei, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, has escalated her tense relationship with her deputies in an explosive rejoinder released on Saturday.

The move is sure to further strain the tense relationship between the mayor and the governor — and it didn't take long for a Cuomo insider to charge that de Blasio had a role in Nixon's effort.

Labor leaders have spoken ominously about the possibility that their tense relationship with the governor could cost him union support when — and if — he should decide to seek the White House in 2016.

Mr Blair had a tense relationship with the Royal family during his 10 years in office.

Members of the Working Families Party, which sits to the left of most mainstream Democrats and has a tense relationship with Mr. Cuomo, have entertained the idea of a third - party run against the governor next year, either in a primary or general election.

After a while, the relationship with my adviser became so tense that I decided to resign, but my despair did not last very long — I was offered a position in a lab that I had visited many times as a predoc.

Still, even gathering those samples «was very tough» at first because of the tense relationship between Jordanians and the Syrian refugees they were hosting, says Natasha Shawarib, the project manager for Mercy Corps in Amman.

Do you tense up or get tight in the chest when talking about money, your job, the past, a particular relationship, or yet another volunteer committee you've been asked to join?

Engaging in a dating prospect who is too jealous and possessive does not lead to an adult dating relationship, it leads to being involved in a romantic relationship immature doubt that you put in a tense and dangerous.

Or in any relationship where you feel uncertain, tense, or afraid that it is ending.

Even though the majority of Russian women consider a family life to be the most natural and attractive female role and a status of a married woman with children is still high in the society, a considerable number of the Russian women display the tense feelings, dissatisfaction, deprivation, despair and even fear in the family life and relationship with a husband.

Writer - director Kat Candler's focus is on the ill - fated choices of angrily rebellious, motocross - obsessed 13 - year - old Jacob (newcomer Josh Wiggins) and his withdrawn, widowed father, Hollis (Aaron Paul), whose already tense relationship grows worse when custody of Jacob's younger brother, Wes, is given to Hollis» sister - in - law (Juliette Lewis).

The relationship is sometimes tense, but Sheba does value being able to confide in Barbara, while Barbara yearns to grow even closer to her much younger companion, savoring every moment they share.

You can see how all that plays out in the first Sleepless trailer that debuted last fall, but now a clip from the movie has debuted, showing us the tense, cheeky relationship that Jamie Foxx has with Michelle Monaghan, who works in internal affairs and has no idea that Foxx is just pretending to be a corrupt cop as part of his job, and isn't actually as bad as some of his colleagues.

Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

Even more important, however, in fueling the drama are the ever - evolving relationships between those familiar characters, the most fascinating continuing to be that between Don and Roma, whose tense and still - intense erotic electricity ignites further complications, manipulations, and uneasy yet undeniable truths.

The Wolf Man also echoes Chaney's life in its tense father - son relationship.

Recalling previous years Sony Pictures Classics had a film in the best - picture category, like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Capote, Barker said he had to manage tense intra-production relationships.

The film imagines Edward's growing unease with the business he's in, and his increasingly tense relationships with higher ups at the NSA.

Trine Dyrholm powers a tense Vinterberg film set in 1970s Copenhagen, where a couple's experiment in group living reveals the faultlines in their own relationship

It certainly didn't help the production that the relationships were strained by Lohan and her off - set antics (based on the news reports, it sounds like she was always «in character»), which probably made the set a very tense and hostile place much of the time.

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In addition to those concerns, the school board and its new superintendent, Tony Smith, will inherit a tense relationship with the teachers union, which has been asked to accept a 3 percent pay cut.

In March 2016, the then - Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw told the committee that the relationship between the regulator and RSCs was a «bit tense» and said he was «not clear what the RSCs do other than rebroker failing academies».

Sir Robin said it was his job to make these sometimes tense relationships work and puts his success, both here and in his own schools, down to «maintaining a humble approach».

In 2016 Sir Michael Wilshaw, Spielman's predecessor as chief inspector, described the schools commissioners system as «not clear» and said relationships between them and Ofsted were «a bit tense».

But Joseph brings with him more than just a tense father - son relationship, one in which they might speak on the phone twice a year.

The US is in a still tense relationship with Russia, and China is going through a power struggle culminating in a crisis and military uprising led by one Admiral Chang, who is the antagonist this time around.

Díaz is interested in creating a tense relationship between spectator / public and object / environment.

It is a dynamic visual art that stems from a discordant figure - ground relationship that puts the two planes — foreground and background — in a tense and contradictory juxtaposition.

I am interested in their relationship, which might sometimes be harmonious, tensed, kinky, or - why not - boring.

Another example is when an individual uses different tenses in the same employment history description (i.e. directed employees, cultivating relationships, supervise, etc.).

Although relationships in many stepfamilies are tense, stepparents are still able to make positive contributions to their stepchildren's lives.