Importantly, though, BP receives a way out of its strained relations with its TNK-BP parnters.
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"I have not had strained relations with President Rabbani in the past, " Karzai said.
Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule also has strained relations with Bhutto, who shares his secularist, pro-Western views.
Yet his aggressive tone strained relations not only with America and Britain, but also with eastern Europe.
Rudy Giuliani is on his third marriage, as is his wife, and has strained relations with his children.
The city offered a nine-point working plan to improve strained relations between the city, police and the black community.
The matter also has strained relations with Australia, a close ally of Israel.
Certainly, the hopelessly strained relations between the West Indies Cricket Board and West Indies Players' Association (Wipa) need urgent attention.
In a section devoted to his strained relations with his one-time mentor, Mr Sarkozy pays him the palest of tributes.
But Mr Maduro has also been described as a pragmatist, whose achievements include a turnaround in long-strained relations with Colombia.
The conflict has strained relations between Sudan and Chad, to the west.
The issue of cyber hacking has strained relations between the two countries.
In 2008 and 2011, Thailand and Cambodia fought brief border wars that claimed scores of lives and strained relations between the two countries.
United's employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP, which held 55% of the airline, never succeeded in soothing strained relations between labor and management.
The Blackwater incident in Baghdad strained relations with Iraq and forced the state department to act, the BBC's Jonathan Beale in Washington says.
To seal the strained relations between the two former political buddies, Mr Mutharika quit the UDF and founded his own Democratic Progressive Party.
Mr Blair has strained relations with Jacques Chirac, particularly since the French president led opposition within the EU to the US-led invasion of Iraq.
Differences over that conflict and Russia's subsequent recognition of the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia strained relations between NATO and Russia.
Mr Hagel's strained relations with the Republican party leadership were seen as a reason for his decision not to pursue a White House run in 2008.
Indeed, it was Mr de la Rua's secret meetings with Mr Menem and the discredited old guard of the Peronist union movement, promoted by Mr Nosiglia, that first strained relations with his vice-president.
Mr. Obama's trip to Afghanistan comes at a time of fresh scrutiny of the war in the wake of a series of incidents that have strained relations between the U.S. and the Karzai government.
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The BBC's Jon Donnison in Washington says the detentions are possibly the last thing the US government wants given how strained relations already are by the dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions and its recent presidential election.
Given the importance of the growing Hispanic vote and the Republican Party's increasingly strained relations with Latino voters, Florida has a chance to wind up in the Democratic column for only the second time in 30 years.
If this can be linked to Turkmenistan, and if Mr Berdymuhammedov can resist Russian arm-twisting, then his country could become a big beneficiary of Russia's strained relations with Ukraine and of the uncertainty bedevilling Afghanistan and the Middle East.
The Israelis have given no official notice of a boycott, but the de facto policy has further strained relations between Israel's government and the news network that was one of the first to broadcast in Arabic worldwide from inside Israel.
It was the latest in a series of gaffes that have strained relations between the two governments, starting when the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, warned the Irish that they would be the first victims if they said no to Lisbon.
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That kind of move is likely to result in the kind of strained relations with the rest of Europe that would make structural funds a fantasy and possibility put the country firmly on track for an exit from the currency within a few months.
When Greece unexpectedly reached the last eight with a 1-0 win over Russia, a day before key elections which saw a narrow victory for pro-Euro party New Democracy, Greek newspapers were quick to link Friday's game with the country's economic turmoil and strained relations with Germany.
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