The first two-thirds of the picture, which seem to exist in an elastically stretched present tense, give way to urgency and imminence.
The staff, when they speak of him, lapse into present tense, giving a creeping sensation that the artist himself is standing in the shadows, pulling strings.
This paper presents a model that incorporates contemporary theories of tense and aspect and develops a new framework for extracting temporal relations between two sentence-internal events, given their tense, aspect, and a temporal connecting word relating the two events.
Given the tense political climate, the Soviet authorities are said to have conducted an official investigation to establish the facts.
South Korea had declined to provide free television coverage to North Korea, given increasingly tense relations between the two countries.
Given the tense relationship, tennis officials privately believe there was only a slim chance that Sampras would have played for McEnroe this coming year.
But they said that the Common Cause statement could not be easily dismissed, given how tense relations were in the Anglican Communion, the world's third-largest Christian body.
The rest of the exhibit comprises display cabinets filled with military awards and gifts received from around the world, including a samurai sword from Japan and – oddly, given famously tense relations – a medal from Cuba.
Senate Republicans control enough votes to filibuster the measure, and given the tense climate of a midterm election year, it is not clear that Senate Democrats will have the stomach for a protracted fight.
That cast a reassuring light on a technology sector that had given investors tense moments in recent weeks after several smaller storage vendors and suppliers of components to storage systems companies had revised projected sales or earnings downward.
