"We do not want to see our relations worsen," he said.

The relations worsened in the early 2000s when the second Intifada began.

Chinese and Vietnamese documents state that relations between them worsened in 1973-75.

Despite their previous collaboration with the Soviets, relations quickly worsened.

By 1931, however, the relations between them and the royalist regime worsened.

None of that has happened, and relations worsened as the nuclear crisis deepened.

But relations worsened because they supported different factions in Cambodia.

As the English continued to appropriate more land for tobacco farming, relations with the natives worsened.

Relations worsened in the early 2000s after the start of the Second Intifada.

The financial relations between the Commonwealth of Australia and the states worsened during the 1920s.