Sentence examples for slight relaxation from inspiring English sources

But it was also possible that the grip might one day be relaxed, Orwell said with great prescience, and that even a slight relaxation would ultimately doom the regime, which would collapse from the inside.

He cited the Leningrad Ballet Ensemble as an example of a slight "relaxation" of ideological controls in some cultural spheres.

In June and July, there was a slight relaxation of the restrictions, allowing in small amounts of agricultural fertilizers, glass, aluminium, cattle and tools for repairing houses.

Already, a slight relaxation in the zoning rules that govern the western side of the district has allowed two dozen hotels to open.

At best, we may be looking at a slight relaxation of the savage austerity programs Brussels and Berlin are imposing on debtor nations.

(He did not mention the slight relaxation in film censorship laws or that chewing gum, which had been banned for years, had made its way back into Singapore. During negotiations on a free trade agreement with the United States, Singapore allowed sugarless American chewing gum with "therapeutic benefits" to be sold in pharmacies here).

China's Health Ministry said on Monday that the food safety situation remained "grim" and that it would not tolerate "even the slightest relaxation" in monitoring.

They are relaxed in order to equilibrate their surfaces; slight surface relaxation, but no reconstruction of the surface was observed.

In case of neutrally charged dextran-coated MNP (Fig. 5a), serum incubation of these particles leads to a slight increase of relaxation time in comparison to the undiluted original sample which probably is caused by an increasing particle size due to the growth of a protein corona on the particle surface.

Though we cannot claim that these are statistically significant differences, they may indicate trends that have biological significance, e.g. a slight slowing of relaxation in muscles of breeding males (high T) compared to non-breeding (low T) may enhance clinging ability (see Discussion of sustained force).

The newspaper closings, the ongoing censorship in the arts, and the poor human rights record indicate that while Rouhani may be in favour of a more open Iranian society, his hardline critics remain determined - and able - to block even the slightest attempt at relaxation.