1.   It also took measures to ease the so-called credit crunch, mainly by relaxing regulatory pressures in order to encourage bank lending.

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

3.   Also, he said, the agreement relaxes pressure to repair fundamental problems in Medicare.

4.   And it may temporarily relax the pressure on Congress to redesign the program.

5.   Guo is said to have relaxed the pressures on government employees and their relatives.

6.   That may relax some pressure on Japan, which has long been criticized by its major trading partners for exporting far more than it imports.

7.   The only time to relax the pressure is when the generals are unambiguously on their way out.

8.   Without relaxing its pressure on terrorists, Israel should ease the security blockade that is strangling Palestinian towns and villages.

9.   Then it sort of relaxed the pressure and I shoved my way up and out of the room and called everyone up.

10.   Although Argentina are already qualified for the next round Basile has no intention of relaxing the pressure on his players.