1.   Clinton is hardly the first president to have rocky relations with his own party.

2.   Egypt has long played a role as facilitator, message carrier, adviser and booster in the often rocky relations between Israel and other Arab countries.

3.   Giuliani denied that sanitation workers would be making more than police officers, whose union has had increasingly rocky relations with him.

4.   He has had increasingly rocky relations with Congress, where he has been criticized for being too disengaged from his department and unresponsive to lawmakers.

5.   Lawmakers in Trenton have occasionally made that same observation about Whitman, and said her imperial style of governing has caused unnecessarily rocky relations.

6.   The matter signals continued rocky relations between the pilot union and Delta management, which have forced other strategic flipflops.

7.   Then he is elected and precipitates a period of rocky relations or stony silence between Washington and Beijing.

8.   This troubles some state Republicans who have had rocky relations with the court and have even tried to strip it of some of its powers.

9.   Before the summit opened, Clinton scheduled the meeting with Jiang to try to stabilize rocky relations with China, an Asian economic and military superpower.

10.   But before the summit opened, Clinton scheduled the meeting with Jiang to try to stabilize rocky relations with China, an Asian economic and military superpower.