'tensions stemming from' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a situation in which tensions have their origin or root cause in some other factor. For example, "Tensions stemming from different political beliefs caused a rift between the two families."
The move came after months of growing social tensions stemming from Italy's economic crisis and the government's stricter enforcement of tax collection.
Tensions stemming from social discontent, religious strife, and Cossack resentment of Polish authority finally coalesced and came to a head in 1648.
This is only partly about tensions stemming from a high-profile trial — it's also about a segment of America that feels threatened.
This is only partly about tensions stemming from a high-profile trial it's also about a segment of America that feels threatened.
That isolation has been reinforced by strained politics, but in recent years, border tensions stemming from a 1979 Chinese invasion have thawed, the government has poured money into improving the province's roads and other infrastructure, and new, albeit modest, hotels have arrived.
Since then, the United States economy has experienced a mild recession -- and, to date, an anemic recovery -- and financial markets have been roiled by scandals, corporate earnings disappointments and mounting geopolitical tensions stemming from the devastating terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
At least part of the tensions stem from the deep cultural divide here.
Mr. Levin said many of the past tensions stemmed from "a kind of indifference on the part of the university" and from the sharp decline of New Haven's manufacturing sector.
The escalating tensions stem from events on March 16, when Mr. Dorismond, a security guard, became the fourth unarmed black man to be shot to death by the police in little more than a year.
Mark Gruberg, a taxi driver for 23 years and a spokesman for United Taxicab Workers, said tensions stemmed from a three-year battle over health care coverage, a benefit promised to cabdrivers under a city ordinance passed in 2003.
The melting of the pack ice between the West and Tehran, in which this agreement was the first and most crucial step, was taken badly in Riyadh, and the ratcheting up of tensions stems from that event.
