Far from easing tensions, the detention of the fighters prompted new recriminations.
Far from easing the pace of austerity, the agreement embeds it.
Far from easing tensions, however, the arrest has inflamed them further as Danish authorities weigh Russia's extradition demands.
Far from easing the strain on the World Food Program, the end of the war has increased the number of people it is feeding.
But far from easing Mr. Putin's opposition to negotiations with Chechnya's rebel leader, Aslan Maskhadov, the crisis has hardened it.
The arrival of a younger sister (Ashley Gerasimovich), far from easing the tension in the family, only gives Kevin new opportunities to show what a manipulative little sociopath he can be.
And politically, far from easing up as the games approach, as many hoped would happen, China's leaders have on the contrary cracked down.Charles Freeman, a China expert at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, argues that the bar for awarding the Olympics should not be set unrealistically high.
Far from easing off as the American economic expansion was becoming the longest in history, the nation's employers added more jobs in January than in any other single month in more than two years -- drawing in people who had given up looking for work and easing the struggle of millions of workers to make ends meet.
Far from easing Pakistan woes, it is argued that the country's overbearing higher court has worsened them.
David Crane's 2005 biography paints a stolid figure, far from at ease with himself but doing a decent job in the most demanding of circumstances.
