"practical tension" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a situation or circumstances which have a stressful energy or atmosphere. For example, "The practical tensions of a tight deadline weighed heavily on the team."
I fear that unless we – citizens, immigrants, leaders, diplomats, and observers – are able to address the ethical and practical tensions reflected in these views, violence will always be just around the corner.
The practical situation creates tension with the supposedly inclusive purpose of provisional balloting -- the harder you try to extend the franchise, the more difficult the post-election task.
Such examples of the experiences of the ethnically matched researcher in relation to avoiding 'doing structure' in the field illustrates very well some of the complexities and practical and ethical tensions inherent in the management and performance of varied social locations and self-positionings on the ground by researchers – whether ethnically matched or not.
In the tension between practical functionality and retributive justice, Rwanda nodded to the latter, but eventually focused on the former.
In the Middle East, we agree that all parties must take practical actions to ease tensions so that peace talks can resume.
This tension ended, in practical terms, with the exclusion of the free charismatic figures from the leadership of the church.
"Now you see a bit of tension between the practical fishermen and the theoreticians," Mr. Visser said.
Tactical silences and apparently practical political alliances can create tension with the strategic campaigning necessary to turn around a kind of globalisation that is increasing inequality in almost every country, with consequences not only in the west but in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where decent growth rates belie entrenched unfairness.
The function of the state, according to standard liberal theories, is to find a practical resolution to this central tension and solve collective action problems that otherwise won't get solved in order to provide public goods public order, military defence, public sanitation, environmental protection, etc that otherwise won't get provided.
A circular concrete-filled steel tube (CCFST) component is subjected to tension in certain practical engineering projects.
