Both sides now employ full-time public-relations specialists.
Mr. FATSIS: Yeah, Upshaw's death comes at a very sensitive time in player-owner relations in football.
And at this critical time in US-Israel relations, the American Jewish leadership is either silent or siding with Obama.
While it is a sensitive time for US-Russian relations because of the crisis in Syria, the FSB's claims to have unearthed a CIA agent are unlikely to have any long-term political consequences, the BBC's Steve Rosenberg reports from Moscow.
Hazard, who had previously never been sent off in his professional career, was red carded by the referee, South Wales Police briefly contemplated pressing charges and Chelsea -- not for the first time this season -- were facing a public relations disaster of their own making.
Libya's action came at a time of unprecedentedly warm US-Israel relations.
However much people use their screen-relations as a transition to direct experience, time together is still the shared experiential capital from which we grow our capacity for screen-relations.
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In November 2007, Correa announced his intention to grant the Chinese access to Manta in efforts to strengthen Sino-Ecuadorian relations at a time when China was looking to satisfy its growing demand for natural resources while Correa was looking to finance his increased social spending.
At the time, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said the 27-nation bloc wanted to promote change in Cuba.
In a section devoted to his strained relations with his one-time mentor, Mr Sarkozy pays him the palest of tributes.
Mr Schroeder's stance was popular at home but Joerg Himmelreich in Berlin says the damage to Germany's relations with its long-time protector, the US, has been lasting.
The new public relations firm for the three-time AL MVP issued a statement denying the allegations.
It appeared during a time when there was a bi-polar system of world relations.
In depth reporting, which looks behind the messages that technology companies and their vast armies of public relations executives pump out, is both time-consuming and expensive.
But Thompson, too, recognizes the need for deeper client relations and a move away from one-time transactions.
"Georgia wants to belong to European and Euro-Atlantic structures but at the same time to have good relations with every neighbour, " said Georgian political analyst Alexander Rondeli.
He also earlier this year took the Foreign Relations Committee to Mexico -- the first time the committee held a hearing in a country other than the United States.
Military-to-military relations are likely to be affected again this time but, many analysts say, less severely.
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Obama is moving, step-by-step, to recognizing Cuba at a time when having good relations with that nation is essential to our national security.
The spat has poisoned relations between America and Europe at a time when their close co-operation is more important than ever.
Gen Musharraf's decision to attend echoes the "cricket diplomacy" of former Pakistani leader Gen Zia-ul Haq, who watched a match in Jaipur in 1987 during a time of strained bilateral relations.
Over time, Republicans in Congress have become increasingly pro-Israeli (especially with Jesse Helms as head of the Senate foreign relations committee).
She spoke warmly about her time in Leicester just as Farooq spoke of how Leicester has set an important example when it comes to inter-cultural relations.
To the contrary, China is building long-term trade relations with Africa that should help open up opportunities for trilateral cooperation, especially at a time when both Africa and the United States will be seeking to improve trade cooperation with Asia.
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