Sentence examples for took tense from inspiring English sources

It took tense negotiations, but it passed in the end.

Under control, though it took tense work, she was lucid, kind and funny.

Even with those taxes, imported chips hold 85percentt of the Chinese market; by comparison, it took tense negotiations in 1986 for President Ronald Reagan's administration to win an agreement giving foreign manufacturers a goal of 20percentt of the Japanese market; by 1995, the sales rose to 30percentt.

3. Taking Tense Seriously is normally associated with The Tensed View of Semantics (see above).

He also was taking tense very seriously.

2. The denial of Bivalence is here characterized in a way that entails the negation of Taking Tense Seriously (see below), but it could also be formulated in a way that is consistent with Taking Tense Seriously.

In virtue of her commitment to Taking Tense Seriously, the A Theorist will say that no time ever possesses all of the different A properties.

"Garcia took a tense club and got it to relax," wrote influential Israeli newpspaer Haaretz.

Robson took a tense eighth game despite an early double fault and she held back the nerves to clinch the first match point available with another aggressive forehand.

It took repeated tense exchanges between MP Louise Bagshawe and Abraham at the culture media and sport select committee's annual grilling of Channel 4's performance before Lord Burns, the broadcaster's chairman, finally stepped in and admitted the broadcaster had been "on the wrong side of the line".

Campbell, 24, took a tense opening round 5-3 before Nevin looked like he might turn things around in the second, which he nicked 5-4.