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288 examples of Relieved in a sentence

The Dutch were supposed to have been relieved by troops from a NATO partner in 2008.
That saved the euro, but it also relieved the pressure on Germany to cede control of its oft-distressed banks.
Indians have every reason to be relieved.
If you announce that you intend to balance the books over five years and pencil in a lot of spending cuts, consumers, relieved of their fears of future tax increases, will start spending more freely.
In the meantime, we can only be relieved that by chance or by fate, President Bush has actually appointed a worthy replacement for Greenspan.
And the previous December, a phase 1/2 human-based clinical trial of another lentiviral gene therapy stopped painful episodes of sickle cell disease, and relieved nearly 80% of patients of the need for therapeutic blood transfusions.
In addition to enforcing production priorities, the program was effective because it relieved businesses from excessive red tape.
A majority of UK citizens will probably be relieved to bring this seemingly endless agony to a close, while most European leaders will likely be glad not to have to argue over another postponement.
All would be relieved at this point just to avoid a sudden, hard break from the European Union.
More than 5,000 demonstrators have been arrested; only one police officer has been relieved of his duties.
Just when Iran was feeling the effects of a wave of brutally repressed domestic protests, the US relieved the pressure on the Iranian leadership.
At the same time, both sides would be relieved not to have to answer to US pressure.
Russian aluminum company Rusal has just been relieved of US sanctions, prompting jubilation on the Moscow stock market.
When he got home that day Levin felt relieved at having done with an unpleasant episode in such a way that he had not been obliged to tell lies.
Formerly every separate desire caused by suffering or privation, such as hunger or thirst, was relieved by some bodily action which brought enjoyment; but now privation and suffering were not followed by relief, but the attempt to obtain relief occasioned fresh suffering.
Dolly felt much relieved when Annushka, whom she had known a long time, came into the room.
But on getting back I was relieved, for I see that there are others besides me who are only interested in Russia and not in their brother-Slavs.
Women continued to arrive, either to join or to take away their men; bands of children followed in rows, and the mothers no longer troubled themselves, pulling out their long pale breasts, like sacks of oats, and smearing their chubby babies with milk; while the little ones who were already able to walk, gorged with beer and on all fours beneath the table, relieved themselves without shame.
Maheu relieved her of the tray and Pluchart was able to go on.
"Ah! that's better now!" cried Chaval, relieved.
Before the Estaminet Tison, Rasseneur only remained, feeling relieved, and with open face applauding the easy victory of the sabres; while in dim and deserted Montsou, in the silence of the closed houses, the bourgeois remained with perspiring skins and chattering teeth, not daring to look out.
The sentinel was about to be relieved, and he went away, running off to bury himself at Réquillart, his heart crushed once more by the certainty of defeat; while the little scamp who ran beside him was accusing that dirty beast of a trooper of having called out the guard to fire at them.
He would be relieved at midday; but fearing that he would not be able to hold out until then, he had sent a trammer from the pit to Montsou to ask for reinforcements.
Only one pikeman could hew at the coal on the narrow face of the tube; he was relieved every two hours, and the coal piled in baskets was passed up, from hand to hand, by a chain of men, increased as the hole was hollowed out.
Every time that a pikeman was relieved, Négrel went down and struck, then applied his ear; and every time, so far, the reply had come, rapid and urgent.
At the settlement Philoméne seemed stupid; her eyes were turned into fountains and she was quickly relieved.
Every twenty minutes the pikemen relieved one another.
From that moment they relieved each other, one of them always listening, ready to answer at the least signal.
A leather belt, which he wore round the waist, relieved them a little.
Past the boundaries of the clearing, the darkness deepened again, relieved only by little sparkles given off by the sharp crests of coral.
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