Sentence examples for tense occupation from inspiring English sources

After the 1968 killing of Martin Luther King, due to Gilliam's reputation as a peace-maker, he was one of only a few people, white or black, permitted to walk the streets of Wilmington, Delaware, to help quell unrest during the city's tense occupation by the National Guard and the Delaware State police.

CHICAGO — As workers at a window-making plant here prepared to spend a fourth night in the factory they had been told to leave for good, union leaders, bankers and company owners met into the night on Monday but the meetings ended without bringing about an end to the workers' peaceful but increasingly tense occupation of the plant.

PAGE A11 National TALKS TO END WORKER SIT-IN As Plant Abruptly Lays Off 250 Even as workers at a window-making plant in Chicago prepared to spend a fourth night in the factory they had been told to leave for good, union leaders, bankers and company owners held private meetings into the night trying to negotiate an end to the workers' peaceful but increasingly tense occupation of the plant.

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.

In the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where occupation forces are in a tense standoff with Moktada al- Sadr, fighters with his militia shot mortar rounds at a Spanish base, said Muhammad Garawi, a spokesman for Mr. Sadr.

A WOMAN IN BERLIN A German woman (Nina Hoss), reduced to desperate straits during the Soviet occupation of Berlin, enters into a tense relationship with a Russian officer (Evgeny Sidikhin).

The Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon is over, but the area remains a tense and barren battleground for forces outside the control of the people who live here.

But after 16 years of tense confrontation between the former allies who had carved it up into zones of occupation, the wall came along and paradoxically condemned the city to political irrelevance.

Through two tense and tightly plotted parallel stories, Nesbø explores the legacy of fascism and the German occupation of Norway.

Some responses to this effort have been tense, as students who oppose divestment perceive it as divisive and counterproductive to a solution to the occupation that it is based on a single narrative in a two-sided story.

The Israeli occupation is evident in walls and checkpoints, and there are some places – notably Hebron – that are always tense.