1.   After a while the tension eased.

2.   Tensions had eased.

3.   As tensions eased, concern that Middle East crude supplies will be disrupted also faded.

4.   As the sun beat down on my shoulders, I felt the tension ease from them.

5.   But although the tension has eased, the history of Nablus has not been erased.

6.   But the tension has eased since he recommitted to piano.

7.   By late afternoon, the tension had eased in the city.

8.   Even if tensions ease in the Strait of Taiwan, commercial disputes will get worse before they get better.

9.   Five years ago I was getting more mail from sputtering skiers about the shocking proliferation of the dreaded snowboards on the slopes, but tensions may be easing.

10.   He said he hoped that then the tensions would ease substantially and the government would return to its program of economic and political reform.