Mistrust has grown from years of watching rampant corruption corrode government and security forces, the cynical manipulation and accidental triggering of ethnic and tribal tensions, and the difficulty of finding decent officials.
After years of increasing tension with Iran, there is talk of finding a way for it to maintain a face-saving capacity to produce a very limited amount of nuclear fuel while allaying fears in the United States and Israel that it could race for a bomb.
Whether this had to do with a release of long-held tension after attaining the goal, or with the frustration of finding that the goal did not relieve the tension, or with something entirely unrelated is impossible to say.
It makes sense: it's an excellent movie that, with its unsettling and unresolved tensions and intricacies, has little chance of finding a home in multiplexes.
Instead, our interview partners stressed the importance of exploring alternatives for managing political tensions and relationships, and by extension of finding ways to end violence in South Sudan.
As the week wore on and hope of finding survivors dwindled, tensions started to rise between construction and iron workers from the city and those from outside the city because city officials had announced they would start contracting out the work.
I really feel it when we stretch and unstretch and I love the sensation of finding out how much tension I can lose when I do this.
Then, finding DSTL is transformed to the problem of finding continuous, interpolating locally computed lines of the maximum tension directions.
Synod, throughout its history, the Church of England has found ways of accommodating difference, of holding things together in tension (sometimes in considerable tension) and finding a middle way through compromise mutual respect and a desire to make it work.
Rokkan identified the importance of "centre-periphery" tensions, finding that outlying regions of a country tend to vote differently from the area where political and economic activities are centred.
