Sentence examples for smoother ties from inspiring English sources

He appears keen to keep smoother ties with Washington than did his predecessor, at a time when the region also faces increased tensions from the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, apparently by a North Korean torpedo.

India's liberalization reforms in the early 1990s ushered in a period of smoother ties, but several decades' worth of mistrust and hostility have lingered.

He is expected to try to smooth ties with the United States, which have been frayed by a dispute over an American air base on Okinawa.

It could widen as Mr. Obama, seeking to harness anger over growing income inequality, escalates his criticism of the industry, after a year spent trying to smooth ties bruised by efforts to impose tougher regulations.

Mr. Cameron, leader of a party known for its aversion to closer European integration, planned to devote his first overseas trip since coming to power last week to smoothing ties with Continental Europe.

The United States, the source of billions of dollars of aid, wants Pakistan's civilian leaders and generals to maintain smooth ties so they can focus on helping Washington wind down the war in neighbouring Afghanistan.

A member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, the centrist party of Mr. Temer, she said that achieving her goals involved maintaining smooth ties with the federal government in the capital, Brasília.

The committee's chairman, John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, fresh off the plane from a 24-hour visit to Islamabad to meet with senior Pakistani leaders, including President Asif Ali Zardari and Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the army chief of staff, reported on his efforts to smooth ties, including an agreement to return to the United States the tail of an American helicopter damaged in the raid.

PARIS -- With a dinner in Paris and a journey to Berlin, Britain's new prime minister, David Cameron, head of a party known for its aversion to closer European integration, planned Thursday to devote his first overseas trip since coming to power last week to smoothing ties with continental Europe.

The important post of foreign minister will go to Fumio Kishida, a 55-year-old former minister in charge of Okinawan affairs, who is expected to try to smooth ties with the United States frayed by a dispute over an American air base on Okinawa.

His successor, Mr. Kan, has sought to smooth out ties with Washington and has emphasized that the alliance is the cornerstone of Japanese foreign policy.