1.   A blunt refusal to help will simply damage relations further.

2.   The killings have damaged relations between the governing Popular party in Madrid and the Basque regional government.

3.   And if there were deaths, they add, many Americans would blame Israel, damaging relations with its most important ally.

4.   Beijing has said that any sale of advanced weapons to Taiwan would severely damage relations with the United States, though Washington has made such sales in the past.

5.   A new poll shows most Americans think the O.J. Simpson trial damaged race relations.

6.   A State Department official said he hoped that the ruling today would not damage relations with Mexico.

7.   Advokat said he wondered whether the strike will damage relations between reporters and supervisory editors beyond repair.

8.   But his spokesman, Ari Fleischer, was pressed on how relations might be damaged.

9.   But more recently, after New Delhi warned that continued human rights criticism could damage relations, the Clinton administration has gone silent on the subject.

10.   Demanding the immediate release of the North Koreans, he warned that the incident could damage relations between China and Japan.