Sentence examples for tense war from inspiring English sources

Pandora Media is already engaged in one tense war with the music industry over its royalty rates.

His attack on Wallenstein's entrenchments on the Alte Veste an operation that probably no other contemporary commander would have attempted was unsuccessful, and for the next few weeks there followed a tense war of maneuver that ended when Gustav fell upon Wallenstein's army at Lützen (Nov. 6, 1632) as it was dispersing to winter quarters.

That firefight makes up the bulk of Peter Berg's tense war movie (based on Marcus Luttrell's memoir), which stars Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster as the members of the SEAL team.

I could not resist asking him whether that exposure to physics made a difference in his career as a diplomat, especially in tense, war-torn areas of the world that are resistant to negotiated peace settlements.

The brilliant comedy of Captain Renault, the wonderful love scenes between Bogart and Bergman, and the tense war-time thrills would each have been enough on their own to fill out many another film of that period or any other.

Zero Dark Thirty was another tense Kathryn Bigelow war film that detailed the decade-long manhunt of Osama bin Laden.

Nicole Kidman, looking prim in a Grace Kelly hairdo, is the tense Channel Islands war wife, bringing up two children in a dark, fog-shrouded house.

SIMILARLY, in "Copenhagen," directed with canny precision by Michael Blakemore, who had previously staged it in London, it's a ravenous, frustrated curiosity that propels the drama, in which the ghosts of Bohr, his wife and Heisenberg try to pin down exactly what did happen during a tense World War II meeting among the three characters.

The profit reported Wednesday by Verizon, currently locked in a tense bidding war for MCI, amounted to 63 cents per share.

The following evening at Sotheby's saw more spirited bidding, including a tense bidding war in the room for the Picasso charcoal that had been in the Bill Blass collection (other items from his estate had done very well earlier in the month at Sotheby's).

Thankfully, this wasn't a one-off and further "GD TV" scheduling has continued with the wonderful, chokingly tense Restaurant Wars on BBC2.