Taiwan's policy since late 1987 had involved the gradual easing of restrictions on contacts with the mainland.

A gradual easing of sanctions may well make sense as both sides begin good-faith bargaining.

Today's decision continues the gradual easing of trade restrictions since the end of the ground war.

Over nationalist objections, a gradual easing of Brazil's oil monopoly has been taking place during the last two years.

Yet even the gradual easing of pressures on Jewish life has created its own tensions.

Beijing has responded with a gradual easing of restrictions on trading in the renminbi.

The process was accompanied by a gradual but important easing of restrictions on economic and political behaviour in the late 1980s, including the satellite states.

It is also a testament to the gradual easing of racial politics in some Southern communities.

It seeks a gradual easing of the U.N. embargo as the terms are met.

The solution to the dilemma is a very gradual easing of interest rates which will continue to 1990.