This could encourage "tension to diffuse", the effects of alcohol or drugs to wear off, and the subject's mental or emotional state to stabilise.
Mr. McCain also tolerates, or, some aides said, encourages, tension in his upper ranks.
Gosling believed that Randall encouraged tension between the two: "He thought it would make them competitive and improve their work".
Worse, the centralized nature of these investments has created a winner-takes-all system that has encouraged tension and civil war.
The broader aim, the consultant said, is to "encourage ethnic tensions" and undermine the regime.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was promoted to replace Saddam as the bogeyman in chief, to encourage sectarian tension and isolate the resistance.
"All larger sites have clear content removal policies, and encouraging communal tensions and hate speech generally wouldn't be tolerated".
It is doing what it can to encourage the centrifugal tensions within NATO through conventional means (diplomacy, trade) and unconventional ones (disinformation campaigns).
Mr Netanyahu said he expected with Mr Obama to "discuss practical ways in which we can lower the tension, encourage stablity and move towards peace".
"These measures would invalidate the policies, commitments and trust of our allies in NATO, undercut U.S. leadership worldwide, and encourage renewed ethnic tension, fighting and instability in the Balkans," General Clark said in a letter this week to Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee.
