Assertive body language isn't tense, shut-down or withdrawn; it moves steadily and smoothly.
When she was reporting in Syria, she says, she "found the atmosphere indescribably tense, fearful, paranoid, shut down".
In the tense standoff that has shut 29 West Coast ports and threatens to undermine the nation's economy, employers and union officials agree that the heart of the dispute involves just a few hundred jobs.
to end a tense political standoff that shut down federal programs for 16 days and led to the furlough of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
5 24 p.m. | Updated An exchange of gunfire at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston produced tense scenes for travelers and shut down one of the airport's terminals on Thursday afternoon.
Adrenaline is released, our heart rate quickens, breathing becomes shallower, blood vessels on the skin surface contract, blood pressure rises, digestion and intestinal processes shut down, muscles tense up, the stomach tightens.
After a few tense days and a strike that shut down the valley for a day, the crisis ebbed and life returned to normal.
In the tense finish, they tightened on defense and shut the Knicks down.
"Of course, the mood was tense, but after someone said the reactors had shut down I saw the plant chief calmly instructing people what to do".
Mr. Alvarez said the atmosphere was tense within the plant, where the six hostages are shut into a suite of offices.
