Sentence examples for building tensions from inspiring English sources

But the conflict in Gaza, like the building tensions between India and Pakistan, suggests that he may have no choice.

In this movie, running tonight and tomorrow in the New Directors/New Films series at Lincoln Center, Mr. Zalica's gentle but firm hand stokes the building tensions.

WASHINGTON — Building tensions between the United States and Egypt flashed into the open Thursday when Cairo confirmed that it had barred at least a half-dozen Americans from leaving the country and the Obama administration threatened explicitly to withhold its annual aid to the Egyptian military.

Missionary activity peaked by 1650 (McEwan 2001; Oré 1936; Spellman 1965) when increasing conflict with the English led to several decades of building tensions and frontier conflicts that would eventually lead to the destruction of the missions during the first decade of the eighteenth century (Boyd et al. 1951; Milanich 1999; Worth 1995, 1998).

Ultimately the acceptance of miracles — events where the laws of nature apparently break down — are one example of a "God of the Gaps" argument that ultimately ends up building tensions between science and religion.

The audience must engage to appreciate the building tensions at the Altamont Speedway Free Concert, in 1969, where a man was eventually stabbed to death within eyesight of the stage.

The new horror movies are much more focused on building tension, and sudden moments, creepy music (to build the tension), lighting, colors, et cetera.

"We have never been for building tension and polarisation.

They are, for example, extremely adept at building tension.

The music was still blaring, building tension perfectly, as the bucking of the airplane got worse.

He's a master of building tension, and resolves everything organically and elegantly.