The country's stringent social codes gradually relaxed.
But the restrictions were gradually relaxed and business picked up.
But the government has gradually relaxed curbs on church activities.
Kataria calmed his body, and the trainees, following his cue, gradually relaxed, and grew silent.
Credit standards were gradually relaxed during the housing boom, so that 95%-100% mortgages became common.
Restrictions on the use of share options and equity swaps, only now being gradually relaxed, have cramped entrepreneurs.
After a sleepless night, Mr. Wilson seemed decidedly restless, but he gradually relaxed into a conversation that circled his life and his career.
North Korean leaders watched closely, and probably with disquiet, the experience of their remaining ally in the world, China, as it has gradually relaxed political controls.
As psychiatrists gradually relaxed the conditions of his confinement, Mr. Sweeney was transferred to the Middletown Psychiatric Center, which is not a high-security hospital.
Clients, they say, are demanding such moves: until recently exchange controls have forced South Africans to invest at home, but as controls are gradually relaxed, investors want their insurers to help them manage assets around the world.
Ampleforth was founded when the monks had to move again after the French Revolution, and returned to England as the anti-Catholic laws were gradually relaxed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
