Sentence examples for tense town from inspiring English sources

Fear and suspicion are manifested in petitions and tense town meetings — and over time they generally mellow into something resembling approval, acceptance or, just as desirable in the world of transportation engineering, apathy.

BRADFORD, England — At the Jamia Mosque on Victor Street in this racially and religiously tense town, Idris Watts, a teacher and convert to Islam, tackled a seemingly mundane subject with a dozen teenage boys: why it is better to have a job than to be unemployed.

The BNP's 'Red, White and Blue' festival is billed as the 'biggest date in the nationalist calendar' and the decision to hold it close to the racially tense town, which recently elected three BNP councillors, has been seen as a ploy to anger the Asian community.

Angry constituents lashed out at a Republican congressman's support of repealing Obamacare during a tense town hall event earlier this week.

More than 100 residents attended the tense town meeting Nov. 23 and told Handy and officials with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife that more action was needed besides educating the public about how to scare, or "haze," coyotes.

Deputy Inspector Michael Grant, on modified desk duty because of the scandal, had previously headed up the 72nd precinct in Sunset Park where numerous incidents of police brutality led to a tense town hall with outraged residents.

Its members fear a repeat of the mass police raid of July 1953, where scores of men were arrested and children were separated from their parents.Colorado City and Hildale have become very tense towns.

Today's fatal attack comes at a crucial time for American commanders and the residents of this tense farming town of 600,000 people on the banks of the Euphrates River.

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 14 (AP) — A state appeals court reversed on Friday the only remaining conviction against one of six black teenagers accused in the beating of a white schoolmate in a racially tense Louisiana town.

The police sent reinforcements into the capital and a tense northern town today after rioters smashed windows at Tirana's main government building to protest the brief arrest of former President Sali Berisha.

Facing the sleepless Paytons in the tense small-town courtroom is a team of well-coiffed corporate litigators.