Sentence examples for universal tensions from inspiring English sources

Dilemmas such as these reveal universal tensions between emotion and reason, but some gut reactions are less widely shared.

Tsiolkas's The Slap, which is also shortlisted for Australia's top literary prize, the Miles Franklin award, "taps into universal tensions and dilemmas around family life and child-rearing", said chair of the judging panel Nicholas Hasluck.

But it often transcends Lesser's individual odyssey; she explores the universal tension between fleeting life and permanent culture, between the upheavals of mortality and the consolations of art.

This vague overlapping between individuality and economy, between the roles we play and our supposedly real "inner-life" reflects a universal tension present in almost everyone's life.

Whether through parenthood, changing roles, the death of a loved one, a new job or any other significant change, the near universal tension between how we experience ourselves and how we imagine others experience us is a challenging and fascinating struggle.

In the early part of the 1900's, when high schools became universal, [this tension arose]  between selectivity and universality... Once they introduced more people, then not everyone wants to go to college, or has the ability to go to college, and that's when vocational courses were introduced into the high school curriculum.

Consideration of the South African example adds a further dimension to debates about contextualising rights by illustrating very real political tensions between universal notions of human rights and more relativist positions.

There he begins by arguing that very general forms or analogues of such a constructive tension are universal facts of nature -- that all finite beings exhibit such a tension, more specifically that all life does so in the more specific form of a tension between autonomy and social commonality, and more specifically still that all human mental life does so in this same form.

In the tension between universal ideals and culturally specific situations, how are current human rights issues being negotiated?

The tension between universal suffrage and economic inequality has seemed obvious to observers on both the left and right since democracy's origins.

To address such issues, multilayer capsules subjected to dilatation fluctuations are investigated using second-order elasticity, validated by universal curves for uniaxial tension and swelling of homogeneous gels.