Sentence examples for at this tense from inspiring English sources

Consensus remains elusive at this tense, uncertain stage.

At this tense moment, artists are serving as the nation's conscience.

* The police are, you'll be pleased to know, taking even the slightest threat of terrorist activity seriously at this tense time.

How can anyone blame a single mother for wanting to be home with her children, ages 10 and 7, at this tense time?

He has a history of standing firm on issues he believes in, in foreign affairs at least: witness his chivvying of the rest of the world to take action against the Serbs in Kosovo.Second, Mr Blair believes that a widening split between America and Europe, at this tense time, would have disastrous consequences for world stability.

But they are united by a commitment to take their hyphenated experiences to the New York stage, and by their perception that, although many of them are not Arab, that is how they often are seen in the United States at this tense moment in the country's history.

Peter, as the locals call it, has perhaps not been at once this radiant and this tense since the Russian Revolution, in 1917.

Clocking in at a whopping 20 minutes, this tense scene is widely considered to be the centre point of an otherwise lacklustre film.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama appear to agree about at least one thing on this tense Election Day: They are standing on mutually exclusive party platforms, offering Americans what Obama called "the clearest choice of any time in a generation".

He did not seem too worried about the slump, but there could be some concern about his team's poise at the tense conclusion of this game.

The will hints at the tense relationship between her and her only descendants.