Sentence examples for Gradually easing from inspiring English sources

Banks have been gradually easing their lending standards.

Excluding that factor, however, annual consumer price declines narrowed in a sign of gradually easing deflationary pressures.

A more self-confident Germany is gradually easing itself out of the strait-jacket of its marriage with France.

The experience of India notwithstanding, they argue that China's under-developed political system is merely part of a wider problem of under-development that is gradually easing.

The ache that clutches at the heart of Quebec, and arguably at the heart of all of Canada, is gradually easing.

"But circles close to the state can announce that the P.K.K. has retired back to their hide-outs and that winter has come, gradually easing the tension".

Feeling was pretty high, but it gradually eased off".

Violent crackdowns had gradually eased since the election of the reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, in 1997.

They have slimmed the state sector, cut public debt, freed trade and gradually eased exchange controls.

As Japan gradually eased these restrictions, some of the offshore business shifted back to Tokyo.

Mr Obasanjo hopes that this will kick-start development and gradually ease tensions.