Sentence examples for tension point from inspiring English sources

This mechanism triggers a convective flow from low interfacial tension point to a high interfacial tension point because of variation in solvent concentration, temperature or electrical charge.

Alba will talk you through various elements of a story, such as narrative tension, point of view and character development.

It has long been recognised as such; Sangin was a known tension point when we arrived in Helmand in 2006 and has remained a keenly contested district between us and the Taliban in the intervening years.

The tightening belt of land enclosure has created a new tension point, with many local residents -- taking a page from Mr. Pinchot's book -- saying that they have been robbed of what should be a public patrimony.

But in elevating exile roots over the apparent reality of his parents' more conventional exodus, Rubio risks setting up a tension point with the country's Hispanic voters — most of whom are Mexican American and have immigrant friends or ancestors who did not have access to the virtually instant legal status now granted to Cubans who make it into the United States.

Speaking at a panel in Washington this week, Mike Hammer, the US ambassador to Chile, said that normalized relations with Cuba go a long way to "removing what we all know was a tension point in US relations with the hemisphere".

"I fully expect Chinese officials will address these tension points," he said.

This is 'Götterdämmerung' for our generation, with our speed, with our tension points, with our nervous energy, but with nothing being a metaphor and everything being a reality".

"One of the tension points," he added, "is that, as you increase authority to operate like a university, you take away local control".

One of the sharpest tension points under Mr Fenty, writes Dana Goldstein, was the clash between his crusading and highly effective schools commissioner, Michelle Rhee, and community school boards and teachers.

One of the biggest tension points this season has been around whether Becca and Garrett, who received the first-impression rose and has been a front-runner from the start, really do share similar values.