Meanings of ambivalent relationship in English

The people here have an ambivalent relationship with New Crobuzon.

Britain has long had an ambivalent relationship with Europe.

For much of the 20th century, Ireland had an ambivalent relationship with the second World War.

Discusses his mother's ambivalent relationship with fashion.

This look at what happens when ordinary people win the lottery could echo Americans' ambivalent relationship with money amid a grueling recession.

Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet saturated the literary world with an intimate sense of the decades-long ambivalent relationship between two women raised in working-class Naples.

To many in Harney County, a place with an ambivalent relationship with government, the image of the Hammonds as persecuted victims of authority is persuasive.

Unlike Merkel, who has been an enthusiastic user of her mobile phone since taking office, her predecessor Schröder had an ambivalent relationship with electronic gadgets.

Britain, a member of the 27-nation bloc since 1973 but not of its single currency, has long had an ambivalent relationship with the EU.

They even have a technical term for it -" ambivalent relationships".