Sentence examples for eased relations from inspiring English sources

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

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.

He also tried to relieve the peasantry's financial difficulties, eased relations with Bulgaria (1933), and engaged Yugoslavia in the Little Entente (with Czechoslovakia and Romania) and the Balkan Entente, an alliance with Greece, Turkey, and Romania (1934).

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.

It all started back in 2013 with the election of President Hassan Rouhani, a moderate politician who eased relations with the West through careful negotiations and ended a decade of tension and isolation for Iran.

Our president seems eager to ease relations with Cuba.

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

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.

Pressure from President Clinton helped win a pardon for Mr. Pope from President Vladimir V. Putin in a gesture intended to ease relations with the new administration of George W. Bush.

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.