Sentence examples for soothing relations from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

The Berenson case has long bedeviled relations between Peru and the United States, and the new trial may represent a gesture by Peru to soothe relations, especially after the country's recent tarnished presidential election.

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.

Now it has been repeated again by what used to be an upmarket broadsheet, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, in its weekend supplement on military affairs.This comes not in response to some Polish provocation, but at a time when the government in Warsaw has been bending over backwards to soothe relations with Moscow.The Russian media in theory at least can print what it likes.

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.

[In an effort to soothe relations with Indonesia, the government announced April 13 that from now on Papuan refugees would be deported to places like the desolate island of Nauru while their asylum claims were processed, which can take several years.] The Indonesian government does not permit journalists to visit Papua without special permission, which is rarely granted.