The phrase "allay tensions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to reduce or calm conflicts or disagreements between parties.
Example: "The leaders met to discuss strategies to allay tensions between their countries."
Alternatives: "ease tensions" or "reduce tensions."
The coalition, which was supposed to allay tension among parties over the conduct of the war, worked badly.
In the first volume of Mr. Kissinger's memoirs, "The White House Years," published in 1979, he gave the impression that the purpose of the crucial meeting was not to allay tension between the two countries on subjects like Taiwan, which China considers a renegade province.
The change, however, did little to allay tension and frustration.
The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, will travel to Azerbaijan's capital Baku on Thursday while the prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, is due in Armenia's Yerevan, in a further attempt to allay the tensions.
Today, with the Lower East Side in flux, Ho believes that miLES can "allay the tension of the old and new".
Derived from the Italian burlesco, a satire achieved through parody, burlesque celebrated the underdog, mocked the upper classes, strove to ease the tensions of the American melting pot through sallies of coarse ethnic humor, and, unlike the chaster vaudeville, allayed gender tensions through heavy sexual innuendo.
"Next question," he said, allaying any tension with a momentary flash of that megawatt smile.
We might have hoped that the election of a black president would somehow make the subject less sensitive and volatile, in the way that John F. Kennedy's election seemed to allay the last, lingering tension between American Catholics and the country's Protestant establishment.
The news about Wheeler also helped allay some of the residual tension left over from Collins's pregame news conference Tuesday.
America has been the offsetting power allaying the tensions of China's emergence.
