His tax plan is a dead letter; he damaged relations with Congress.

Officials said that without the cuts, the film could "seriously damage our relations with other countries."

It could never damage delicate diplomatic relations or put people's lives at risk.

Trouble there could damage not only the game but relations in the whole field of sport, between two nations and their peoples.

The incident damaged relations with the some of the local Italians.

In that case, all the more reason to let them come in: we don't want to damage our relations.

"We did not damage our relations with the United Nations," he said.

All these difficult issues have contributed to a lack of public trust and damaged our relations overseas.

"It's in neither of our interests to allow this case to damage bilateral relations," she said.

Such a policy also damages relations between the countries within the European Union.