Sentence examples for tensions are increasing from inspiring English sources

But he added, "tensions are increasing below the surface".

Sunni-Shia tensions are increasing across the world as a result.

Mr. Obeid emphasized that civil war has yet to break out, but "the tensions are increasing".

The economies in post-Arab Spring countries like Tunisia and Egypt are in decline and political and social tensions are increasing.

As Syria's civil war degenerates into a bloody sectarian showdown between the government's Alawite-dominated troops and the Sunni Muslim majority, tensions are increasing across the border between Turkey's Alevi and Alawite minorities and the Sunni Muslim majority here.

("End" being an odd phrase, as we still have fifty thousand troops there, Shiite-Sunni tensions are increasing, and the March elections have yet to produce a new government; in the months since, Iraq's parliament has met for only twenty minutes).

But social tensions were increasing nevertheless.

What's more, the government of Maharashtra was bankrupt, AIDS was on the rise, boys and girls were hugging each other when no one was looking, communal tensions were increasing, etc.

CHICAGO — Tensions were increasing here on Saturday, the eve of a NATO summit meeting, after three men were accused of planning attacks on President Obama's re-election campaign headquarters, the house of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, police stations and financial institutions in downtown Chicago, according to prosecutors.

These tensions were increased by the influx of thousands of Palestinian refugees after 1948.

The European Union's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, said Tuesday that, even if the increase in troops was within permitted limits, it gave the impression that tension was increasing.