Sentence examples for tense state from inspiring English sources

Cairo was in a subdued but tense state, with the army maintaining a conspicuous presence on the streets.

Gone was the tense state dinner with the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev when Deng, preoccupied by the throngs of students then occupying the square, let a dumpling tumble from his chopsticks.

A tense state of anticipation gripped much of the Middle East today as Israelis and Arabs waited to see whether the conflict in Lebanon would defuse or intensify further and revive active hostilities between Israel and its neighbors.

Though the Bush administration said there was no evidence that the disaster today was related to terrorism, some people said it would be difficult to separate the tragedy from the tense state of world affairs.

#BREAKING CNN Turk reporter says 2 helicopters in the air to rescue pilots but there are clashes on the ground pic.twitter.com/LcDmT86Qa8 Nato's headquarters in Brussels, already in a tense state of lockdown following the terror threat there, said it would be issuing a statement later on Tuesday.

The Republican Party was hounded for comment on the episode, and reporters attributed the event to the "tense" state of "American politics". The person charged in this crime was, however, a parishioner, and an official said the arson was designed to appear "politically motivated," but was not.

As cell adhesion receptors, integrins possess specific and varied binding affinities with various ECM molecule compositions to provide a tensional homeostasis in response to the tense states of tumor microenvironments.

Iraq feels like a tense police state.

Instead of her much vaunted serenity, we find her quietly desperate as a super efficient housewife who has terrorized her husband and children with her strict household management and tense emotional state.

And look at his use of the present tense: the state of nature is not something back in the past, before society developed; it is there all the time, ready to swallow us up.

The pilgrim traffic dries up and Ayodhya slips back into its tense, troubled state.