Mr. Gabriele, 46, is accused of leaking the confidential documents to a journalist who published a detailed exposé, claiming widespread tensions within the Vatican as well as its most important financial institution.
The verdict capped one of the most embarrassing episodes in recent Vatican history after a tell-all book based on dozens of the documents leaked by Mr. Gabriele revealed accusations of financial misdeeds within the Vatican, as well as infighting and widespread tensions.
And Khaled Khouja, the representative of the Syrian National Coalition — a group attempting to unify Syrian opposition — in Turkey, also said he, "didn't hear about any widespread tension".
Assumption 4: There Is Widespread Tension Between Older Workers and Younger Bosses Although tension between older workers and younger bosses makes a good storyline for television and the movies, it is far less prevalent than one might imagine.
"It is not difficult to predict widespread social tensions, and concerns about democratic access to the marketplace, if Americans continue to be resigned to a lack of control over how, when, and what marketers learn about them," they add.
There were also widespread urban tensions, particularly in London, where John of Gaunt narrowly escaped being lynched.
The U.K., now under a coalition government led by Tory David Cameron, is involved in a fierce cost-cutting campaign that is sparking widespread social tensions.
Political institutions are dilapidated, corruption is rife, poverty is widespread and ethnic tensions run deep.
Watching The Great Australian Race Riot (SBS), you repeatedly get a sense of how easily a spark can set off widespread violence when tensions are ratcheted up.
The trip to Washington is meant to put to rest widespread talk of tensions between Germany and the United States and a lack of chemistry between Mr. Obama and Mrs. Merkel, who dismissed talk of strains in their relationship at a news conference in Dresden this month.
Police officers arrested a journalist during peaceful protests in Ferguson on Saturday night, amid widespread speculation that tensions could boil over in advance of a grand jury's ruling about the police officer who shot Michael Brown in August.
