Sentence examples for tensions were mounting from inspiring English sources

Behind the scenes, tensions were mounting.

After months of relative quiet, civic leaders and human rights workers said this week that tensions were mounting.

In late August, tensions were mounting between the two countries again after mortar shells were fired from Congo into Rwanda.

Last week, as the Burmese prepared to vote for the first time since they gave Ms Suu Kyi's party a landslide victory 20 years ago, tensions were mounting.

Political tensions were mounting, new artistic creeds and manifestoes were multiplying by the day; Freud was probing the dark impulses of the unconscious, and the journalist Karl Kraus was unmasking the contradictions of bourgeois life.

Until a year ago, serious tensions were mounting in northeastern Africa.

But political tensions are mounting in Spain.

As the divide between rich and poor blacks widens, tensions are mounting.

Few Western diplomats claim there is an immediate danger of civil war but tensions are mounting after polls which have been mired in bitterness and recrimination.

His argument, echoing that of the regime, is that Iraq's Shia opposition are bloodthirsty Iranian stooges.As Iraqis pray for salvation, sectarian tensions are mounting.

The movement of hundreds of thousands of cattle from Mali is threatening peace across the border in Burkina Faso, where tensions are mounting as Malian refugee pastoralists come head to head with local agricultural farmers.