relations
/ (rɪˈleɪʃənz) /
social, political, or personal connections or dealings between or among individuals, groups, nations, etc: to enjoy good relations
family or relatives
euphemistic sexual intercourse
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Nothing in it was meant to change the basic operations of the capitalist economy or to intervene aggressively in class relations.
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society | Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST“In America 100 percent of men have free sexual relations after marriage,” he said in another speech, which was aired on TV.
50 Shades of Iran: The Mullahs’ Kinky Fantasies about Sex in the West | IranWire, Shima Sharabi | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe added that Norse has good relations with the FBI and has consulted with them on other crime cases.
FBI Won’t Stop Blaming North Korea for Sony Hack -- Despite New Evidence | Shane Harris | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt sounds like from the PR [public relations] perspective they are sticking to their guns.
FBI Won’t Stop Blaming North Korea for Sony Hack -- Despite New Evidence | Shane Harris | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAn expert in education talks about race relations, the political environment and what can be done to improve things.
So strained became the relations between them, that for the last part of the advance they no longer met at meals.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonLevison's relations think he will cut up well at his death; Levison's relations are right.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsIt consists in finding relations between the objects of thought with an immediate awareness of those relations.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)The relations between country bank officials and the officials of this bank have been most cordial.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsDuring his absence his own relations and the chief families in his town became the objects of persecution.
The Philippine Islands | John Foreman
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