But American officials eased the pressure.
B9 MORE ACCESS -- New York City officials eased several restrictions on cars coming into Manhattan.
Officials eased the rules for forming initiative groups, which candidates need to legally gather signatures to get on the ballot.
Officials eased the transition, welcoming employees with big red and white umbrellas to lessen fears about walking in the rain.
After the first attack, officials eased normally tight restrictions on shark fishing and sent an armada of fishermen out into the ocean to strike back.
In November, state officials eased statewide restrictions on car-washing, lawn-watering and other water uses, after the New York metropolitan region had its seventh-wettest October, and as November rainfall was running half an inch above normal.
Last year officials eased the "material support" rule under US immigration law that was designed to prevent terrorist sympathisers from entering the US but instead acted as a dragnet, ensnaring Syrians with no real connection to terrorism.
For example, US officials eased their pressure on Peru's government regarding the drug-eradication issue in the early 1990s, when Lima concluded it was more important to induce farmers involved in the cocaine trade to abandon their alliance with the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas.
Although the BOJ did not say it would change its zero-interest-rate policy, the dollar strengthened as Japanese officials eased pressure on the Central Bank to take action against a dangerously strong yen.
He needs help from World leaders and Europe's other leaders and the involved Eurozone officials, easing up the strict -- non-workable rules imposed -- on the Greek people.
