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.
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.
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.
#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.
Last month Barack Obama, returning from a tense state visit to Saudi Arabia, disclosed the administration was nearing a decision on whether to declassify some or all of the 28 pages, which have been held under lock and key in a secure room beneath the Capitol since they were written in 2002.
The browser wars are in a tense state of suspension right now.
Here, we refer to class 1 structure as the "T state" (the tense state) and class 2 as the "R state" (the relaxed state).
In a respectively tense state, I jotted down notes for my speech, highly concentrated, because every word counted.
The tense state of negotiations has prompted many observers to warn of an imminent Greek exit, or "Grexit," from the eurozone currency union.
The tense state of affairs between Olivia and Fitz is only heightened by the fact that she's doing a bang-up on Josie's campaign, helping the candidate transform from Aunt Bee to Eisenhower.
