The US relationship with Iraq's Sunni Arabs has evolved since the invasion of 2003.
The controversy comes at a time when the US relationship with Islam is very much under scrutiny.
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"We wanted to manage the entire episode in a way that showed the pragmatism and maturity of the China-US relationship, " says Jake Sullivan, Clinton's deputy chief of staff.
While the US relationship with the Islamic world has suffered from the recent inflammatory anti-Islamic film, values-based finance has emerged as an unlikely, yet significant point of connection.
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As Sharon was prepared for his sad journey home, Netanyahu was sitting with Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, in New York, trying desperately to salvage the peace talks and the Israel-US relationship.
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With Chavez's death, some have hoped for a change in the US-Venezuela relationship.
However, economics is just one aspect of the US-Colombian relationship and perhaps not the most important.
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The new head of the US defence department has arrived at a markedly tense point in the US-Afghan relationship.
As this episode suggests, the US-Saudi relationship has been dysfunctional for some time.
Since entering office, Obama has shown that his primary foreign policy goal is to remake the US's relationship with the Muslim world.
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The US-Venezuela relationship has been characterised over the past decade by public spats and outlandish statements, but it was not always so hostile.
Nowadays, we have - just behind a password typically handed to us on committed relationship silver platters - access to our better halves' entire social world.
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The US-Saudi relationship, for example, is flawed at a very deep and basic level, despite the existence of a massive bilateral arms trade that has gone on for decades.
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But coming back briefly to Kodak, is this really telling us that the relationship between good online reputation management, through social media, and sales is much more nuanced than we previously acknowledged?
One could also look at the US-Egypt relationship, which is also deeply flawed and highly problematic, that has gone hand-in-hand with billions upon billions of dollars of arms purchases spread across many years.
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Though our focus is not on the benefits that free trade agreements bring to the US and to the rest of the world, economics are just one aspect of the US-Colombian relationship and perhaps not the most important.
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But most of us have never really considered the idea that our banks or other large institutions would be basing a relationship with us on our publicly available blog posts, tweets, status updates, and photos.
That relationship got us a peek at an unusual company's ambitious leap into Asia.
And what does their relationship tell us about how we should value art and each other?
At the same time I really want to see a good relationship between US and China.
On Tuesday, Mr Gilani said his country and the US must base their relationship on "trust, cohesion and understanding".
So at this defining moment in history let us renew our special relationship for our generation and our times.
And I hope that you will be able to continue to work with us on improving this relationship for many more years.
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In each of those it's just frankly about servicing what are largely big institutional clients who are anxious to have a relationship with us.
Our town police are well paid and polite and they are not very different from the rest of us in their distant relationship to crime.
And so HeTexted joins the many spaces on the Internet that some of us go to for dating advice and the rest of us go to for relationship schadenfreude.
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