White employers often continued the paternalism that characterized relations between slaveholders and slaves.

The language of hate and prejudice has long characterized Arab-Israeli relations on both sides.

Q. How would you characterize relations between tribes and the state now?

Another problem is the terrible imbalance of power that characterizes relations between the genders.

Central to this program of research is an effort to understand, at a theoretical level, the organizational principles that characterize psychobiological relations.

By contrast, just two years ago only 16 percent of black respondents characterized racial relations that way.

Mistrust and poor communication characterized relations between the city and other health care institutions, the report said.

Intricate and interlocking alliances have often characterized regional relations.

A year ago, only half as many Japanese characterized relations that way.

Cultural borrowing, appropriation, and misreading characterized ethnic relations in this era.