1.   It would be foolish for western governments to relax the pressure while most of the reforms remain on paper.

2.   The following month the government relaxed its rules on censorship.

3.   But analysts say that despite the pressure, the government has not relaxed its economic policies.

4.   Corporate Japan has called on the government to relax regulations on pension fund management to boost returns on assets earmarked for retirement costs.

5.   Economists and analysts are expecting the government to relax its monetary policy, allowing interest rates to stop climbing.

6.   Growing concern that social and political unrest could cause the government to relax its austerity program contributed to the decline.

7.   High-tech firms want the government to relax export controls on computer hardware.

8.   Minh saw the rate of payoffs as having risen in recent years while the government relaxed economic restrictions and extended certain freedoms, including the right to worship.

9.   Since then, the Cuban government has relaxed some state controls on religion.