Sentence examples for continual tensions from inspiring English sources

The presence of groups of Taliban and tribal militants residing in the area has led to continual tensions.

Japan's occupation by the Americans, who set out to rebuild the country as a pacifist liberal democracy, helped to set the stage for four decades of jaw-dropping growth.Yet the origins of the miracle and of the continual tensions it has created inside Japan and out stretch further back.

Carroll (1991) organised his pyramid as a four-layered model, entitled the Pyramid of Responsibilities, which embodied the four different responsibilities - economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic - which while not mutually exclusive, enabled managers to appreciate the varying types of obligation and the continual tensions between them.

There was also continual tension over content.

"This violence of landscape, this cruelty of climate, this continual tension in everything, and even these monuments to the past, magnificent yet incomprehensible because not built by us..

There has been continual tension in Iran between reformers -- the president and much of the Parliament -- who are pressing for greater religious and cultural freedom, and religious conservatives, who control the judiciary and security services.

There's the reluctance to seat you while tables sit empty for hours at a time; the sense that the restaurant considers itself a "destination" (visitors have included Oliver Stone and Janet Jackson); and the continual tension between what the place pretends to be and what it is.

What has been clearly defined in each era has been, rather, the treatment of dissonance, the approach toward it and away from it in a smooth and logical manner so that the musical flow is of a continual tension and relaxation.

I find research really stimulating, but there is a continual tension between today's clinical problems and tomorrow's research needs, and it is the research that offers the only way of making things better for patients in the long run.

The modern state is in a condition of continual tension, always deciding what must be renounced and what must be welcomed, what must be avoided and what must be fought, which gates should be opened and which closed, even -- or perhaps especially -- in a world that is post-9/11 and pre-Gulf 2.

It ebbed and flowed, with a continual tension that never found release.