Sentence examples for tense community from inspiring English sources

In tense community hearings, some parents made familiar arguments that innocent youngsters were not ready for explicit language.

One cabinet member suggested that a neighborhood cleanup drive, intended to soothe perennially tense community relations, had gone so well they might do them more often.

Gabriel Olikile addresses a tense community meeting organized by Thomson officials, with calls for the Maasai to modernize and to reject local NGOs.

Then, only two days before the verdicts were handed down in the trial of four police officers in the Rodney King incident, Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomandand others warned police officials that a large presence in South-Central Los Angeles would threaten their constituents and inflame this already tense community.

Differences that were once settled peacefully and calmly through debate have now become so poignant and tense that community leaders often opt to avoid any discussion fearing that it will deepen the schism within their already divided community.

Against a backdrop of occupation, SWAT teams, tense negotiation, community debate and more direct action, the idea of public versus private goods and even of the notion of what "public" means is in dispute.

By the end of the night, he would find himself the latest subject of another viral video — the kind that revives the tense conversation communities are having nationwide about police use of force, racial profiling and the risks that come with being a person of color in the United States.

Commissioner Marc Sarnoff -- who, as fate would have it, lives across the street from the tiny strip of leafy suburban green space -- held vigil, pledging to neighbors and TV cameras that city workers were doing everything possible to guarantee the health and safety of residents, a message he repeated a week later at a tense, city-sponsored community gathering.

But far from being a serene backdrop to peaceful village life, the Tian Shan (Mandarin for "celestial mountains") in this part of Kyrgyzstan are at the centre of one of the region's most ambitious and controversial mining projects and a long-running and increasingly tense conflict with communities nearby.

Bratton told reporters on Friday that he and Banks never fought over policy, saying "we were very simpatico in the understanding that the culture of the department needed to be reshaped" -- a clear reference to tense relations with communities of color.

The Jewish community is tense.