Sentence examples for decade of tension from inspiring English sources

It was also a decade of tension within the British economy itself.

The attack led to nationwide riots in which 2,000 people died, and a decade of tension between Hindus and Muslims.

We experienced precisely such an event in the early aughts, the Al Aqsa intifada, which disrupted a long period of hopeful normalization and kicked off a decade of tension and periodic war.

After a decade of tension between the two groups, and four months of sporadic violence initiated by ethnic Albanian guerrillas there, Macedonia is now teetering between political compromise and all-out warfare.

It all started back in 2013 with the election of President Hassan Rouhani, a moderate politician who eased relations with the West through careful negotiations and ended a decade of tension and isolation for Iran.

This status was revoked by Belgrade in March 1989, initiating a decade of tension and conflict.

It is led by President Rouhani, a former nuclear negotiator who won the presidency, in 2013, by vowing to end a decade of tensions — and international sanctions — over Iran's nuclear program.

The talks in Baghdad — between Iran and world powers United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — had been accompanied by high hopes that the current climate was conducive to progress on a deal that would help ease a decade of tensions over Iran's nuclear activities and lift the threat of war hanging over the Middle East.

Relations between Iraq and Syria have improved in recent months after two decades of tension.

A war in 1962 followed by decades of tension over their borders have created little but mutual suspicion.

It is the 1990s in southern Sudan, where decades of tension have exploded into one of the continent's most brutal conflicts.