Example sentences of "relations has been " in BNC.

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1 In more recent times the functioning of Swedish industrial relations has been as much , if not more , dependent upon the centralisation of power within the employers ' confederation as upon the unions ' peak organisation .
2 In that country one of the most salient characteristics of post-World War II industrial relations has been the development of control by professional managements in the larger enterprises .
3 Similarly , much recent analysis of the impact of technical change on labour relations has been concerned to show how technical innovation has been driven by the need of employers to ‘ deskill ’ the workforce in order to control the ‘ workprocess ’ and extract the maximum rate of profit from labour [ Friedman , 1977 ] .
4 Its most striking answer in International Relations has been systems theory , which we shall examine in the next chapter .
5 The assumption that transformations represent paraphrase relations has been undermined , for example , by consideration of cases in which the passive and deletion transformations illustrated in [ 4 ] and [ 7 ] do not preserve the same " logical content " : Many arrows did not hit the target The target was not hit by many arrows .
6 Li Peng , the Chinese Premier , told Nguyen Manh Cam on Sept. 11 that with the progress in the political settlement of the Cambodian issue [ see pp. 38440-41 ] , " the normalization of Sino-Vietnamese relations has been put on the agenda " .
7 This model of client-bureaucracy relations has been summarized by Etzioni-halevy , who concludes that
8 The confusion over Anglo-American relations has been compounded by some influential Americans , including Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger , who subsequently argued that the United States should have backed the British over Suez in 1956 .
9 The SPOA 's annual report claims a decline in industrial relations has been encouraged by senior management .
10 Finally , public relations has been looked at in some detail , because this area has expanded most over recent years and its relationship to the selling function is a very direct one as the sales force is increasingly being called upon to carry out PR activity .
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