Indeed, it has long been on the agenda to ease substantially the visa regime between the two countries instead of establishing new visa centres.

Clinic directors say the use of tapes substantially eases the burden of a law that they had argued restricted access to abortion.

The result was a ruling that, while not giving prisoners' advocates all that they had asked for, substantially eased their concerns.

How can we address the issue of tax fairness, when his budget does not substantially ease the marriage tax penalty?

Upon Frederick William's death in 1840, persecution of the Old Lutherans eased substantially.

If so, that could relieve the upward pressure on short-term interest rates, which eased substantially yesterday.

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

But the decline has not substantially eased congestion on the city's streets.

He says new development will substantially ease villagers' tax burden, one of the highest in a high-tax region.

But the 1996 Helms-Burton law makes it impossible to substantially ease the embargo without Congressional approval.