Sentence examples for lesser tension from inspiring English sources

More likely, in the near term (and, one devoutly hopes, more likely than either of the unacceptables), is a continuation of the present anxious standoff, a miniature Cold War that alternates between periods of greater and lesser tension — a diplomatic version of Zeno's Paradox, with Iran edging ever closer to a bomb but never quite building and testing one.

Any external actions that Trump takes toward lesser tension between the two countries, he said, is not of importance because it ultimately will do little to improve the crisis state of the Russian economy, a more pressing concern to many here outside of the ruling government than the state of affairs with Washington.

An empowered Muslim community will also mean fewer security headaches and lesser social tension.

Changes in depression-dejection and vigor subscales showed little contribution suggesting that inflammation-associated changes in total mood largely reflected increases in confusion, fatigue, and to a lesser extent tension-anxiety rather than depression-dejection or vigor (see Supplement 1 in [ 16]).

Long experience has taught me that when playing against a lesser side the tension is reduced massively and victory is far more likely when runs have been put on the board.

Studies mainly performed in tertiary care headache centers found that migraineurs and, to a lesser extent, patients with tension type headache are at risk for worsening of their headache under regular intake of acute relief medication [6].

Shielded from the fame and the demands on his time and family that would break lesser men, he writes with tension and vulnerability.

There was already tension, but on a lesser scale, mainly because it was overshadowed by the invasion of Iraq, when Sergeant Hasan Akbar in 2003 threw a grenade into a tent of his comrades in Kuwait.

Waviness, which was isolated to the innermost six plies of any cylinder, was principally affected by mandrel material, with tow tension and thickness played lesser, moderating roles.

At any particular age of concrete, the beams with lesser percentage area of reinforcement in tension zone exhibits more growth of strain than in beams with more percentage area of reinforcement.

But it often transcends Lesser's individual odyssey; she explores the universal tension between fleeting life and permanent culture, between the upheavals of mortality and the consolations of art.