Sentence examples for ease relations from inspiring English sources

Our president seems eager to ease relations with Cuba.

However, "China notably took steps to ease relations with Japan and dampen suspicion among rival South China Sea claimants after China's assertive posture in 2010 increased regional tensions.

Mr. Carter said his delegation also brought along some 500 pages of declassified documents from the National Archives that detail his administration's efforts to ease relations with Cuba.

He hopes to placate criticism at home and ease relations with his European neighbors by pushing for a United Nations resolution authorizing an interim governing authority.

He calls off talks with North Korea about its missiles, casting doubt on the whole attempt to ease relations between South and North.

In a symbolic gesture to ease relations with hard-liners, Mr. Karzai will pay homage at the shrine of the founder of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The two made strides in easing relations with North Korea, providing it with billions of dollars in aid.

He overhauled the judicial system, liberalized the economy, and eased relations with long-suppressed minorities like the Alevis and the Kurds.

His presidency was marked by a landmark summit meeting in Pyongyang with Kim Jong-in in June 2000 and by his "sunshine policy" of increased aid and trade that eased relations with the North.

During the 1970s a network of treaties, based on the Four-Power Agreement of 1971, progressively eased relations and increased the freedom of movement, at least for West Berliners and Western visitors.

Earlier this year, the European Commission proposed giving national governments an opt-out from rules as a way of allowing approvals of biotech crops at the E.U. level, a change that was also aimed at easing relations with trading partners.