Sentence examples for tensions were simmering from inspiring English sources

By 1974, tensions were simmering within Genesis.

Tensions were simmering between the two west London schools, with some pupils seeing the station as "home territory", and the attack was said to be revenge for an "inconsequential" skirmish the previous day when a boy had been left with a bloody nose, the jury was told.

Beneath the surface, tensions are simmering, with Jesse hankering to move back to Chicago to be near his son, a desire that Celine sees as a threat to her cherished independence.

With only a few days to go until the United Kingdom's national elections, tensions are simmering in Scotland.

On the streets of the Hatikva quarter, one of the low-income neighborhoods in south Tel Aviv where an influx of illegal African migrants has stirred unrest among residents, tension is simmering under a facade of normalcy.

"The early nineties was only the climax of tensions that were simmering for decades," said Mr. Nandy.

Such cartoons did not help to sooth racial tensions that were simmering then.

Her remark gives a rare insight into the tensions that were simmering beneath the surface during President Xi Jinping's state visit in October, when red carpets and horse-drawn carriages were rolled out, lavish banquets were held and $46-billion 46-billions were strade.

Coloring much of the episode, interviews and documents indicate, were simmering tensions over the military's treatment of the roughly 660 foreign men who were then held at Guantánamo without charge.

Tensions in the village of Wukan were simmering over the perceived corruption of local government officials in 2011.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The tensions had been simmering for months in the northern Syrian town of Saraqib.