Sentence examples for current of tension from inspiring English sources

There was a current of tension concerning competition from plastic shopping bags.

But now, a current of tension crackles through the city, where people are nervously waiting for a battle that seems to get closer every day.

Not far beneath the surface of the festivities, there was a current of tension, a tangible dread that the 17-month conflict would soon spill onto the streets of Damascus.

It is the story of a family and a three-week summer holiday in the house they have inherited, beneath whose affable surface run deep currents of tension.

The relativities that interest Reta Winters - and the author - are mostly the minute currents of tension and release that flow within families, and among friends and lovers.

The minute currents of tension that change a conversation and a life are so crucial to McEwan's method that it would be unfair to give away every last turn in his narrative.

"The current escalation of tension over this dispute was totally caused by the Japanese side," General Liang said.

Secretary Powell noted that the current point of tension between the United States and Russia was not the arms race but Russian barriers to American poultry imports.

He said the current level of tension was not as bad as it was last fall, or at the end of 2008 after the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers.

Despite the current easing of tension between the Numismatic Society and the Hispanic Society, scholars are concerned that the collection has been split.

Western diplomats blame Japan for this current round of tension, which began in April when the nationalist governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, announced the city was considering buying the islands from the family that owned them.