1.   But the ruling unlikely to improve exceedingly sour relations between Hungary and Slovakia.

2.   Can the United States now build on this historic, but still fragile, event by improving its own sour relations with the Islamic republic?

3.   Sour relations between the church and the Mexican state kept priests and other clergy from voting for most of this century.

4.   The sour relations, of course, are not benefiting either side.

5.   While no one has said this was illegal, it helped sour relations between two businesses that once cooperated on what seemed like complementary business models.

6.   And China is threatening Western governments with sour relations if they bend to the pressure.

7.   Egypt and Sudan have had increasingly sour relations since el-Bashir came to power.

8.   Even as trans-Atlantic trade relations sour over steel tariffs, the European Union is moving to end another dispute with the United States over aircraft noise.

9.   Putin said he would encourage the Russian Orthodox Church to improve its sour relations with the Vatican so that John Paul could make a historic visit to Moscow.

10.   Such an outcome for Sudan seems unlikely, however, due to the sour relations between its Islamic government and the United States and other major donor countries.