In an interview with The Financial Times, Mr. Medvedev's suggestion that a "new model" of cooperation could be found for the big field holds the potential to ease tense relations between Russia and Western energy majors.
The ability to do so was considered to be a strength of the intervention and often succeeded in easing tense situations.
Pads like this are often used to ease tense neck and shoulder muscles as well as back pain.
American officials have emphasized that Pakistani cooperation on access to the women would help ease the tense relations between the C.I.A. and the Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI.
On Tuesday Israeli forces conducted raids in the West Bank, arresting some 30 people including, reportedly, the father and brother of the suicide bomber.Israel's decision not to carry out a military strike may not ease a tense situation.
Others noted how the dancer's presence helped ease the tense situation a bit.
Instead, to ease the tense United States-North Korea standoff, the United Nations might offer to serve as a mediator in negotiations.
Third, another chaplain recognized that integrating research methods into chaplaincy as a field might acknowledge, and perhaps eventually begin to ease, a tense relationship between religion and science, particularly in physical and mental health care: "I think there's a distrust of science.
The league offered ideological adversaries a field where they could vent serious political differences, easing the often tense discussions among the prisoners.
The Global Times, published by the People's Daily, wrote, "the company's apology letter has eased the situation, softening the tense relationship between Apple and the Chinese market".
