Sentence examples for tense years from inspiring English sources

And, even after those tense years, it was Baraka's black critics, rather than his white ones, whose censure hit hardest.

After a few tense years, Szczerbiak has fallen into a peaceful existence with Garnett as Minnesota's second-leading scorer.

During the tense years that followed, some Sri Lankan refugees felt pressured to return home until India adopted a policy of voluntary return in 1996.

Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., who had headed the Richmond, Va., school board during the tense years of desegregation, was one example Mr. Dellinger cited.

The French Government never really prohibited the film, but distributors and potential financial backers thought it "preferable" not to show the movie bere during the tense years of the Algerian war in the late nineteen‐fifties and early sixties.

Moreover, he places Priscilla in the social context of the 1930s and 1940s: from the devil-may-care years before the second world war through the tense years of the German occupation.Rigid social conventions at the time spawned a convenient hypocrisy, from the false titles adopted by couples "living in sin" in England to the flourishing brothels and sex-clubs of Paris.

That was a really tense year.

This has been an especially tense year in that sea because of a number of encounters between Chinese, Vietnamese and Philippine vessels.

But after a tense year, Mr. Sherman said he swallowed his ego and started popping by Mr. Cantara's office for daily advice.

Closer to home, border incidents in Spain's North African enclave of Melilla, along with Morocco's violent repression of Saharan protests in November, made for a particularly tense year in the always-complicated Spanish-Moroccan relations.

MANHATTAN, Kan., Dec. 15 - Earlier this year, as Sgt. Alexander Garcia's plane took off for home after his tense year of duty in Iraq, he remembered watching the receding desert sand and thinking, I will never see this place again.