Sentence examples for soothe relations from inspiring English sources

Officials for all three nations say some efforts to soothe relations are already under way.

Tempers calmed, but only after the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, dispatched an aide to soothe relations.

The test will be whether Mr. Roh can simultaneously soothe relations with America.

Still, Frank Black Cloud, the Spirit Lake member, said an end to the nickname would not soothe relations between white North Dakotans and American Indians.

Pakistan angrily closed the crossing to protest the strikes on its side of the border, leaving American officials to use meetings and phone calls to try to soothe relations and get the route reopened.

To soothe relations with Marketspan's biggest customer, the Long Island Power Authority, Mr. Catell said he will meet this week with Richard M. Kessel, the chairman of the authority, the state agency that took over the Lilco electricity system.

Giving confiscated property back to the ousted Asians was the government's first step in soothing relations.

The agreement is seen soothing relations after Brazil's sharp currency devaluation in January 1999, which lowered the prices of Brazilian goods and labor costs, causing some manufacturers to shift production of cars and parts to Brazil from Argentina.

Oddly, given a history of resentment at Afro-Caribbeans who are often accused of taking public housing and precious jobs, Asians are reviled for their apparent aloofness.Cures for communal tensions are inadequate to the task of soothing relations between Muslims and others.

And Mr Gates was smart enough to support the general, extending the troops' time in the battlefield and ordering the expansion of the army and marines.Mr Gates soothed relations with the top brass, the State Department and Congress that had been frayed by his predecessor's truculence.

When Najib Razak became prime minister last April, replacing the man who in 2008 led the National Front coalition government to its worst election results, he pledged to soothe battered relations between Malaysia's races and to speed up economic changes.