Both sides are used to dealing with this fraught relationship, and closer economic ties may eventually make conflict less likely.

They get engaged, but have an on-off relationship fraught with frequent arguments.

Sick of it, she cut him off - prompting more tension in an already fraught relationship between her and Perdy.

But China's increased participation in global organizations may well improve the way our two nations handle this always fraught relationship.

Some works comment on the fraught relationship between art and money.

One of his recurrent themes is the fraught relationship between fathers and sons.

Nick has a fraught relationship with his brother, Michael.

He had a fraught relationship with his hostess and wrote about this in his fiction.

Things must be gritty, realistic, full of fraught relationships and apparently usually end on a downer.