Secretary Powell visited China this summer, and while there was modest tension over sanctions that Washington imposed against a Chinese company for weapons proliferation, the session was notable for an improved mood.
But Johnie, his patience worn thin, gives Ray an ultimatum, a deadline that — along with the screeching from the lounge's harridan landlady (that would be Ms. Miles), the impending lottery and Mr. Dafoe's twitchy, sympathetic performance as an unlikely optimist — gives the story its modest tension.
But in January a few Kashmiris, responding to a modest thawing of tensions over Kashmir, admitted that some of the high-profile killings, commonly attributed on Indian forces, were in fact done by Kashmiris themselves.One question now is what happens to al Hadith.
Just before his visit, China's defence ministry took some modest steps to defuse tensions.
More modest reductions in interfacial tension occurred when using the Tween 80 surfactant resulting in modest mobilization.
However, our findings were robust, and this effect is likely very small due to the modest number of chronic tension-type headache respondents observed in the reference groups for the two transformation events (N = 14 and N = 28, respectively).
Effects of more modest changes in oxygen tension on gene expression have been rarely investigated.
It's from the British director David Mackenzie, who creates both levity and tension in his modest thriller.
Unexpectedly, however, a simple loose ring bit is found to give modest poll pressure, transferring rein tension through a pulley-like action.
Similarly, we observed that highly concentrated solutions of BSA (5 mg/mL and 10 mg/mL) had only very modest effects on minimum surface tension.
