Example sentences of "in relations [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems Brown and Iles discovered in their study of community constables ( what , in the RUC , would be called neighbourhood constables ) , which was based on 300 officers in five police forces in England , was the relatively small proportion of working time devoted to activities the primary purpose of which was improvement in relations between the police and the public through direct involvement of constables in the community ( Brown and Iles 1985 : 29 ) . |
| 2 | Nationalist feelings may well be ameliorated in relations between industrialised countries by the interdependence discussed above ; this will not be the case when the industrialised country is dealing with a less developed state , yet it is in this latter kind of country where nationalism may be most strongly manifested . |
| 3 | The mood of ‘ time for a change ’ was certainly felt in the area of industrial relations , particularly in relations between the government and trade unions . |
| 4 | In some cases , as in relations between the mainland and Zanzibar , this could be decisive . |
| 5 | The arrangement eventually became a sore point in relations between the US and Panama , which regarded the original treaty as an affront to its sovereignty . |
| 6 | Dog-eared it may be , but the idea is being given a new lease of life by the rapprochement between the Soviet Union and South Korea , the thaw in relations between Japan and North Korea , and now a likely peace treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | The report also condemned Clwyd Area Health Authority and Delyn Borough Council for not co-operating during the salmonella outbreak in north Wales in the summer of 1989 , claiming that a breakdown in relations between the two bodies had culminated in ‘ open hostility ’ . |
| 8 | In particular , the image carried two main implications : that women played small part in relations between men ; and that men acted in groups . |
| 9 | Mr Don McKinnon , New Zealand 's Deputy Prime Minister and External Affairs Minister , was quick to welcome the French decision yesterday , saying it would remove a contentious issue in relations between the South Pacific countries and France . |
| 10 | So Herbert Chapman established a pattern in relations between directors and manager which has become a feature of many of the major clubs , where the only veto on the manager 's power is the sack if he fails to bring results . |
| 11 | One aspect of the changing nature of local government since the early 1970s seems to be that various local government agencies have taken on this role in one way or another , to the extent that there seems to have been a marked change in relations between those agencies and business interests at local level . |
| 12 | Harsh words and animosity persisted for a year or so but by 1851 there was a thaw in relations between the London school and the Royal College . |
| 13 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |
| 14 | Moreover , there has sometimes been reason to doubt the relevance of laws-of-war thinking to the important objective of strategic stability in relations between the nuclear powers . |
| 15 | However , despite Laud 's personal antipathy towards the papacy , the 1630s did see a growth in the influence of Catholicism over the English government and an improvement in relations between Charles 's court and the papal curia , and for the large numbers of English Protestants who were unable to distinguish between Arminianism and popery and who regarded Laud as little more than an agent of Rome , there could be no doubt that the archbishop was to blame . |
| 16 | In 692 a fourth Council of Constantinople , almost wholly taken up with disciplinary matters , marked a watershed in relations between East and West . |
| 17 | Which services these are to be is always a matter of dispute and may be a crucial factor in relations between central and local government . |
| 18 | The long heritage of Chinese influence and superiority has remained a crucial factor in relations between the two countries throughout the modern period . |
| 19 | This forcible intervention by the Western powers in relations between East Asian nations highlights the degree to which East Asia and Western power play were related , and the pivotal position of Japan in this interdependence . |
| 20 | Both Kennedy and Khrushchev appeared to have been chastened by the experience , and the next 12 months saw a thaw in relations between the USA and the USSR . |
| 21 | Moreover , in relations between member states , rights and obligations arising from the Convention of 1958 could not prevail over the obligations of member states under the E.E.C . |
| 22 | Treaty in relations between the member states does not jeopardise non-member countries ' rights under the Geneva Convention of 1958 , the United Kingdom can not rely on that Convention in order to justify infringements of those rules . |
| 23 | There were ‘ negative phenomena and deformations ’ in relations between the nationalities , as there were in other spheres of Soviet life ; and there had been incidents elsewhere not very different from those in the Kazakh capital . |
| 24 | In relations between the two ‘ opposing systems ’ , conflict clearly took precedence over competition . |
| 25 | The ambiguity of an elegy which laments the loss of constancy in relations between household and patron , and yet offers itself in the public market-place as a suit for favour , aptly characterizes the circumstances of Emilia Lanier 's life . |
| 26 | The Soviet Union considered the essence of their proposals as an attempt to resolve the problems and differences in relations between the ASEAN and Indo-Chinese states ‘ by means of a direct dialogue between them and without any outside interference ’ . |
| 27 | PEACE has broken out in relations between workers and employers in Northern Ireland , figures revealed today . |
| 28 | President Joaquim Chissano , making his first official visit to the United States , met President George Bush on March 13 for two hours of talks , in what was seen as marking an improvement in relations between the two countries . |
| 29 | The advent of the new government of Indian Prime Minister V. P. Singh in December 1989 led to a steady improvement in relations between the two countries , despite the extension of the deadline for the final withdrawal of the IPKF to March 31 , 1990 [ see pp. 37126 ; 37184-85 ] . |
| 30 | In what was described by The Times of April 20 as " the worst crisis in relations between the two NATO allies " , 15 Turkish diplomats were withdrawn from the Turkish embassy in Bonn , West Germany , and eight West German diplomats were expelled from Ankara . |