Sentence examples for cool tensions from inspiring English sources

A détente between India and Pakistan has helped cool tensions in the region, officials here say.

Nigeria's president, Umaru Yar'Adua, has tried a variety of measures to cool tensions in the region.

The statement angered American officials who are hoping to cool tensions in the Taiwan Strait.

They used words to cool tensions and their physical presence to divert crowds.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan on Wednesday stressed the need for more diplomacy to cool tensions on both sides.

Officials in the region say that a d?nte between India and Pakistan has helped cool tensions.

On Friday, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, tried to cool tension between Russia and the United States by calling on the US to abandon its drive for a European-based missile defence system, and calling on Russia to cancel deployment of ballistic missiles to the Polish border.

But instead of cooling tensions, the move set off fresh protests.

Last week, India shocked the United Nations by refusing to meet with a representative of Secretary General Kofi Annan who was sent to the region to offer United Nations help in cooling tensions.

He advocated diplomacy instead of confrontation, establishing a twice-yearly "strategic economic dialogue" with officials in Beijing, aimed at cooling tensions and deterring Congress from taking up trade sanctions.

Whatever positive aspects the ethnic model offered when it was devised in 1992, he said, "I'm afraid. . . it is now not cooling tensions but it is fueling them". "No healthy country allows a mass displacement of this magnitude in the presence of a capable government," said Assefa Fiseha, an expert on Ethiopian politics at Addis Ababa University.