"sharp tension" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation that is characterized by a feeling of intense pressure or strain. For example: "The sharp tension of the gathering hung thick in the air as the two sides faced off."
By the end of the 19th century, this commitment to character formation, to sustaining "curiosity and humility," as Delbanco writes, was in sharp tension with a commitment to professionalization. Colleges were becoming universities, which meant they were getting into the business of research.
The stalemate is creating sharp tension not only between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate, but also between the Senate and the House, where Democrats have a larger majority and have been more successful in passing legislation only to see it blocked by Republican filibusters in the Senate.
The shortages have created sharp tensions between families fortunate enough to have a small harvest and those with nothing.
Russia had strongly opposed the decision by the Bush administration to deploy parts of its anti-ballistic missile system in Poland, which led to sharp tensions between Warsaw and Moscow.
Over the last four decades, the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion have enjoyed a generally warm rapport, although there were sharp tensions when Anglican churches began ordaining women.
The memo accusations, which were made under murky circumstances by an American businessman of Pakistani origin, Mansoor Ijaz, caused sharp tensions between Mr. Zardari and the military leadership which, at one point, led to frenzied coup rumors.
Even when prime ministers invoked the so-called special Anglo-American relationship, the appearance of personal amity often concealed sharp tensions, a point made by the historian Richard Aldous in his forthcoming book "Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship".
The report also describes sharp tensions between the military and the C.I.A. at Abu Ghraib, particularly over the agency's use of the prison to hide so-called ghost detainees, in violation of military rules.
A State Supreme Court justice in Brooklyn issued an injunction last night that bars the city's transit workers from striking, while union leaders, the mayor and the governor worked to ease the sharp tensions surrounding the contract talks.
Mr. Kobayashi's latest manga, "On Taiwan," has sold more than 250,000 copies since it was published in November and has created sharp tensions with Japan's neighbors for its depiction of the war.
The issue is already leading to sharp tensions between the governments, and any effort by the United States to force Iraq to keep Blackwater could make the Maliki government appear to be a weak puppet.
