Sentence examples for proved tense from inspiring English sources

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Although they finished their group undefeated, Scotland still had to rely on Tonga and it proved tense watching for them at a Manchester hotel.

The goal sparked jubilant scenes at the Matchroom Stadium but stoppage time proved tense for supporters of the east London side as Peterborough pulled a goal back through Washington.

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But the warm fuzzy feeling on the part of activists and those who have worked tirelessly to expose police brutality belied an uncomfortable truth: While the video of Dubose's death looks terrible, proving Tensing willfully murdered the father of 13 in a court of law is an entirely different matter.

But the warm fuzzy feeling on the part of activists and those who have worked tirelessly to expose police brutality belied an uncomfortable truth: While the video of Dubose's death looks terrible, proving Tensing wilfully murdered the father of 13 in a court of law is an entirely different matter.

The emergency summit meeting that ended yesterday in Egypt proved as tense and difficult as advertised.

Negotiations that require member countries to relinquish some of their power proved so tense and difficult that the summit meeting on the French Riviera, originally scheduled to last two days, will now stretch into a fourth day on Sunday.

The preacher at a slain Sunni youth's funeral described him as a "martyr to Arabism"—a subtle jibe at the ostensibly "Persian" Shias and their leading party in Lebanon, Hizbullah.This was the week of Ashura, a Shia festival that commemorates martyrdom and has often proved a tense period in places where Islam's two main sects both reside.

Tariffs also proved a tense topic of conversation.

So providing his chops are up, and he regularly hits the T with those spectacular first serves, this could prove a tense tussle.

5.00 am: Archery "As the only Englishman in an all Chinese office here in Beijing," writes Steve George, "the atmosphere is proving unusually tense, is anyone else watching the team GB/China archery showdown?

The Greek people, of course, understand more acutely than most right now why that sort of unaccountability is wrong -- which is one reason why the prosecution of their former defense minister is proving so tense and so poignant at the moment.

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