Sentence examples for tense gathering from inspiring English sources

It was a strange, tense gathering.

It was always going to be a tense gathering, given that the OSCE was the body that blew the whistle on Ukraine's election fraud.

The announcement turned what had been a tense gathering into a corporate pep rally, punctuated by several long waves of applause for Mr. Wang and Sanjay Kumar, the chief executive.

"We thought we were doing something really nice for everyone in the area," said Ms. Fitzgerald after a recent Bridgewater Land Trust meeting, a tense gathering of board members and about 75 citizens at the local library.

He stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes.

While he was careful not to blame the assault on protesters, Belmar said that tense gatherings like last night's are "very difficult" for police to handle, and expressed surprise that protesters would respond angrily to news of Jackson's resignation.

When an embattled Blatter arrived at a tense Uefa gathering on Tuesday, he told delegates he had decided to stand for four more years because he was best placed to lead Fifa through the "storm" engulfing it.

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As the sun set, men began gathering in tense knots, questioning one another's commitment to the revolution as they argued and shouted over how to defeat Ahmed Shafik, a former military commander made prime minister last year just before Hosni Mubarak relinquished nearly 30 years of power.

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.

According to reports from major cities across Russia, the situation in the provinces was tense Sunday but there was no violence, and radio broadcasts spoke of gathering support for the President.