Sentence examples for tensions lingered from inspiring English sources
After President Obama made his choice, Volcker expressed his support for Geithner, but tensions lingered.
The Green Movement raged on sporadically for more than six months; political tensions lingered long afterward.
Undeterred, Sewell emerged as a leader at Selma High, where blacks slightly outnumbered whites and racial tensions lingered.
But diplomats and American officials said that tensions lingered over American suspicions that Iraq had infiltrated the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission, known as Unmovic.
But there were important differences, too: 1985 was a race riot, given its energy by an explosive relationship between the black community and the police; in 2011, tensions lingered, but the relationship between the local force and the community had improved immeasurably.
The president's democratic mandate is not in doubt, even if tensions linger in Nigeria's traditional north-south ethnic divide.
A day earlier, hundreds of mourners gathered to grieve for Clark at an emotional funeral that alluded to the tensions lingering in the community.
Much of northern Iraq is talking peace these days, of unifying opposition groups pledged to defeat Mr. Hussein, and of reconciling tensions lingering from the Kurdish civil war.
His comments had special resonance in the Baltic region, where tensions linger between Russian-speaking minorities more than a generation after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In the 1990s, reformist Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and then-Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah wanted to defuse tensions lingering from Saudi police scuffles with Iranians during the Hajj ceremony in Saudi Arabia in 1987, the Lebanese Civil War and other issues.
