Sentence examples for under a tense from inspiring English sources
A top official of Russia's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service, said for the first time that talks with the captors were being held under "a tense atmosphere" and that releases of others, including children, may be possible.
BOSTON — The rain had stopped, the field was nearly ready, and all the players were waiting under cover to resume a tense game at Fenway Park.
In the meantime here's a recap of Saturday's main developments: BBC director general George Enwistle is under mounting pressure following a tense interview on Radio 4's Today programme in which he admitted being totally unaware of a Newsnight report that led to Tory peer Lord McAlpine being implicated in child abuse until the day after it was broadcast.
The trustees, who were selected carefully on the basis of how close they are to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and appointed by the court, entered the building under a very tense police escort.
The darkness and the light are both just around the corner, brawling outside the neighborhood bar, duking it out -- and in Cormier it is a literal fistfight, or a tense interrogation under a hot lamp, or a coercive session of psychotherapy.
There follows a tense weekend of claustrophobia under wide Australian skies, as Liese's refuge from London becomes a prison of her own making.
The matter receded quickly once the game — a tense and taut affair throughout — got under way.
A tense silence followed.
But a tense, a tense, my vote for a tense!
