He adds that even if Syriza cannot persuade its eurozone neighbours to slash its debt burden, it should at least demand a relaxation of the cuts regime.
Merkel's aides say she has been "annoyed" by phone calls from chief executives of large companies, demanding a relaxation of Germany's stance towards the Kremlin in order to preserve £59bn a year in trade with Russia.
For its part, the Pyongyang regime has insisted that it will not unilaterally disarm, and has demanded the relaxation of international sanctions before offering any more concessions on its nuclear programme.
However, such compliance has come at a price: the imposition of austere cultural measures that are alienating the growing middle class, which is demanding a relaxation of some of the country's strict social traditions.
But history's charge against him will be that after all these years of planning the politics of coalition, he failed to secure any of his party's key demands: no relaxation of fiscal austerity, no rescue of the NHS, more tuition fees but no electoral reform, no Lords reform, not even reform of party funding.
Among the demands were a relaxation of the firm's dress code, more social events and corporate credit cards "where the analyst never sees the bill" yet accumulates the corresponding reward points or cash back.
At the same time, top bureau officials are described as "sym pathetic" to industry demands For a relaxation, or at least an extension of time, in enforcing some provisions.
When it is nonlinear, we show that the problem is NP-hard and develop an approximation algorithm based on demand function approximation, linear relaxation, decomposition, and sorting.
Despite its pre-election promises, the Rouhani government has been slow to implement the sociocultural relaxations demanded by reform-minded Iranians.
We examine the Lagrangean relaxation (LR) of demand constraints in a strong reformulation of the problem.
