Tension disappears, as do strained necks, hunched shoulders, and unnecessary work. |
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Tension holds everything together, making architecture out of otherwise unsupportable flimsiness. |
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Tension ran high among the engineers when the Vinci engine fired, and the hydrogen and oxygen valves opened in sequence for the first time. |
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Tension pneumothorax occurs when pleural damage results in a one-way valve phenomenon allowing air to enter, but not exit, the pleural space. |
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Tension was high even before kick-off as the appointed referee failed to show. |
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The version of High Tension that is finally getting a United States release has been slightly trimmed and dubbed into English. |
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Tension specimens, gage length 25 by 10 mm, were cut along the rolling direction from the following 1.2 mm sheet aluminum alloys. |
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Tension among teeny-boppers is reaching fever pitch as music fans wait impatiently for Gareth to take centre stage at the Party in The Park. |
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Tension in Mission Control were high, as the engine had to fire while the craft was on the far side of the Moon, and out of radio contact. |
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There will always be some tension between the desire to reduce risk and the desire to make as much money as possible. |
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Tension builds up, emotion fluxes, comedy alternates with despair, as the horror of the situation in which the three are entrapped unfolds. |
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Tension pervades the air, though the prevailing climate has more to do with Melbourne next March than Ayrshire in high summer. |
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Tension gastrothorax is a rare condition that occurs when the stomach herniates through a ruptured or incompetent diaphragm into the chest. |
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The outbreak of war was motivated by a gradual rise in tension between the Kings of France and England about Guyenne, Flanders and Scotland. |
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Its credentials are its incompleteness, with the tension and the travail of its soul. |
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The tension was heightened by news of the Irish rebellion, coupled with inaccurate rumours of Charles's complicity. |
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This led to tension, particularly in the Punjab region, where repressive measures culminated in the Amritsar Massacre. |
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Added to the tension of the mission which exhausted and drained crews, tiredness caught up with and killed many. |
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When two of those people are judges, the tension among two lines of precedent may be resolved as follows. |
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While they don't necessarily reach different results in every case, the two approaches are in direct tension. |
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This tension shaped the sports of association football and cricket, and led to the schism between the two main forms of rugby. |
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The vehicle occupant can move around with relative freedom while the spring tension of the reel keeps the belt taut against the occupant. |
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With their origins in Ancient Greece, tension was used to project a bolt or javelin. |
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It is the tension between the dark and benevolent sides of love, which are reconciled in the end. |
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In his early poems, the poet narrator expresses a tension between vice and virtue, the latter invariably related to Protestantism. |
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From Tolstoy, Woolf drew lessons about how a novelist should depict a character's psychological state and the interior tension within. |
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A strict definition of the thriller film is that the film's overarching goal is to build tension in audiences as the film approaches its climax. |
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Thriller films also share a close relationship with horror films, both eliciting tension. |
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For Watson, much of the humour of the film sprang from the tension among the three lead characters as they matured. |
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The consequent tension between the highland and coastal populations has periodically flared up into isolated events of violence. |
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Considering the degree of muscular tension that accessory breathing entails, the net payoff in oxygenation makes it a poor energetic investment. |
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The filter is actuatable between the expanded configuration and the collapsed configuration by the application of tension to the wire. |
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That would seem to be a recipe for constant tension but Dratch says that backstage at SNL is not a competitive backstabby kind of atmosphere. |
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Both men seemed to enjoy these contests, always laced with the tension caused by constant government bleating about the ABC's left-wing bias. |
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Georgie's mother is very bugsome, to tell you the truth. If I had to live with her I'd get tension headaches too. |
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Sir Anthony got out a lute and began to strum, pausing every so often to adjust the tension on the catguts. |
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But the most critical tension concerns the need to balance minimal own-casualties and low collateral damage with operational effectiveness. |
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He used gravity and the tension created by cooling glass to manipulate the piece into a dolphinlike shape. |
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When pulled in one direction, the trailing ploughs were lowered onto the ground by the tension on the cable. |
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From then on, the Empire existed in constant tension between the need for two emperors and their mutual mistrust. |
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Within a single organization scheme, you will need to balance the tension between exclusivity and inclusivity. |
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After looting and burning the city Richard established his base there, but this created tension between Richard and Philip Augustus. |
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Depredations continued, leading to growing tension between England and Spain, which were still technically at peace. |
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The calendar reform became a major point of tension between the Anglicans and Puritans. |
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Thatcher was Leader of the Opposition and Prime Minister at a time of increased racial tension in Britain. |
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In April 2016, the People's Republic of China was also invited to RIMPAC 2016 despite the tension in South China Sea. |
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Thus, Soviet perceptions of the West left a strong undercurrent of tension and hostility between the Allied powers. |
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During this time tension between the Albanian and Serbian communities continued to escalate. |
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Although Fleming was aware of this tension between the two countries, he did not focus on it strongly. |
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Drug and alcohol use escalated tension between the three members, and conflicts between Bruce and Baker eventually led to Cream's demise. |
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Although the album's success meant there was no longer any pressure or a deadline from their record label, tension during this period was high. |
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The movement of water out of the leaf stomata creates a transpiration pull or tension in the water column in the xylem vessels or tracheids. |
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In the case of Malaysia, Singapore was expelled from the federation because of rising racial tension. |
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In the early days of pipe bands, rope tension snare drums were common, but as the technology evolved, so did the music. |
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Steel truss cantilevers support loads by tension of the upper members and compression of the lower ones. |
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It was a violent period, and there was probably widespread tension, alluded to in all the written sources. |
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These restrictions formed a lot of tension between trade nations, causing a major deduction during the depression. |
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Thus, the apparent relaxant effect of smoking only reflects the reversal of the tension and irritability that develop during nicotine depletion. |
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They perform within the tension of conserving the recognized form and adding innovation. |
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Joking as an active form of verbal lore makes this tension visible as joke cycles come and go to reflect new issues of concern. |
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Near the melting point, the liquid plutonium has very high viscosity and surface tension compared to other metals. |
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To avoid sharp bending at the end of it and to mitigate excessive sag bending, the tension in the pipeline would have to be high. |
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This sudden and ongoing inflow of immigrants, particularly those arriving illegally by sea, has caused noticeable social tension. |
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In ocean waves, surface tension effects are negligible for wavelengths above a few decimetres. |
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The refusal of the Hansa to offer reciprocal arrangements to their English counterparts exacerbated the tension. |
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The ligament provides tension to bring the valves apart, while one or two adductor muscles can contract to close the valves. |
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Spars are moored to the seabed like TLPs, but whereas a TLP has vertical tension tethers, a spar has more conventional mooring lines. |
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The thumb points forward and supports the leading edge, and the other digits support the tension held in the wing membrane. |
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This makes most efficient use of their properties as heartwood is best in compression whilst sapwood is superior in tension. |
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The marketer's task, therefore, is to manage this tension, this broken soul, this bifurcated core, this paradessence of a product or service. |
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The vicissitudes of its later growth were rooted in its minority status in a situation of international tension. |
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These bonds are the cause of water's high surface tension and capillary forces. |
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The ice cover may also undergo a state of tension, resulting in divergence and fissure opening. |
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There is a tension between the role of animals as companions to humans, and their existence as individuals with rights of their own. |
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Competition over jobs, business opportunities, public services and housing has led to tension between refugees and host communities. |
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At times this tension invited open rebellion, and restive factions within the Visigothic aristocracy exploited it to weaken the monarchy. |
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For the following three centuries, there was latent tension between the traditional regional laws and Roman law. |
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It favors compositional tension and instability rather than the balance and clarity of earlier Renaissance painting. |
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The tension culminated in an international airlift agreed to by Senegal and Mauritania under international pressure to prevent further violence. |
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Tension was high in Maranello, Italy, where Schumacher brought ferrari to the podium in F1 racing more than any other racer. |
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Tension wood in the apricot tree is composed of typical G-fibres. |
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In The Bath, the first track, is just a nice listen, while Nervous Tension, the second track, feels quite jazzy but is broken up with some beautiful piano samples. |
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Tension gives the thin strips their form and causes them to retain their locations on the cylindrical concrete columns that support the parking slab and roof. |
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Tension rose as the other bus drivers became involved in the scuffle, which was momentarily resolved when traffic police detained the cabby and dismissed the bus drivers. |
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Tension headaches often are described as tightness or vice-like pain around the forehead or back of the head. |
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Unlike birds whose stiff wings deliver bending and torsional stress to the shoulders, bats have a flexible wing membrane which can only resist tension. |
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The poor dear lady shivered, and I could see the tension of her nerves as she clasped her husband closer to her and bent her head lower and lower still on his breast. |
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The restoring force that allows them to propagate is surface tension. |
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The main tension between fisheries science and the fishing industry is that the two groups have different views on the resiliency of fisheries to intensive fishing. |
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Tension headaches and migraine are the primary headaches dealt with in a community pharmacy. |
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Amidst high oil prices, geopolitical tension, and fears of disruptions to the oil supply, growing demand was the main driving force in the tanker shipping market for the year. |
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The two values are obviously in tension, and some readers have concluded that he is an elitist democrat, while others count him as an earlier participatory democrat. |
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Combine this with tension in the legs and a coregasm is born. |
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Tension is well done and builds delicately through a spiderweb of plots and subplots in this fine haunting, chilling tale. |
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Although his playing evolved over the years, it was noted throughout for the tension between the idealistic aspects and the weaker, venal aspects of Macbeth's character. |
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The Cold War saw periods of both heightened tension and relative calm. |
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Tension is subject to unknown bolt relaxation when the stretch-load is transferred onto a hand-tight nut. |
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The resultant force vector from the lift and drag force components is opposed by the tension of the one or more rope lines or tethers attached to the wing. |
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The strap is also glued to the sides of the sandal, which directs tension to less stressful areas of the sandal, which gives the sandals more durability. |
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This representation allows for curved fibers that can collapse locally yet still transmit tension as they are gathered into a pericellularly dense region around the explants. |
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And the thrill which their ill-omened bayings send through people at large is a measure of the state of tension in which the general mind is held. |
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This opposition has traditionally been thought to be a result of greater muscular tension, though phonetic experiments have repeatedly failed to show this. |
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Vaughan, his team, and all involved, should be proud of this achievement and the manner in which they have played during this extraordinary summer of excitement and tension. |
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A topping lift is used to hold a boom up in the absence of sail tension. |
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Social tension has heightened during Leung's term, with many Hongkongers believing that PR China increased their efforts to exert influence on everyday life in Hong Kong. |
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Between 1533 and 1540, the Tudor King Henry VIII took control of the English Church from Rome, the start of several decades of religious tension in England. |
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Between July and October 1956, unsuccessful initiatives encouraged by the United States were made to reduce the tension that would ultimately lead to war. |
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In the absence of rapid deceleration or rollover, the reel is unlocked and the belt strap may be pulled from the reel against the spring tension of the reel. |
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This led to tension and eventually conflict between Numidia and Rome. |
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It is charged with identifying and seeking early resolution of ethnic tension that might endanger peace, stability or friendly relations between participating states. |
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Gaiety and an overflowing, outpouring love, warmth and clarity, a lighthanded ease, replaced the tormented tension of the will which had marked the outgrown stage. |
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In 1660, Hooke discovered the law of elasticity which bears his name and which describes the linear variation of tension with extension in an elastic spring. |
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As soon as we entered we could feel the excitement and tension in the air. |
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This has been ascribed to the long succession of able rulers in the past four centuries who exploited the rivalry and tension between the French and British Empire. |
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The discordant and violent tone of the symphony, written at a time of growing international tension, led many critics to suppose the symphony to be programmatic. |
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These incidents, in which a total of 447 slaves belonging to US nationals were freed from 1830 to 1842, increased tension between the United States and Great Britain. |
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It occurred to us to make an experiment to see what degree the tension of the carbonic acid given off by natrium-bicarbonate would amount to, when heated in a closed space. |
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Zimbabwe was unconvinced, and the barrier remains a source of tension. |
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At that time, tension was high between Spain and Great Britain, and the British feared that Spanish Florida was threatening the British Carolinas. |
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However, the subsequent tension erupted into conflicts between the Indians and the young United States, the largest being the Northwest Indian War. |
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Tension erupted as well, of course, between Dina and her parents, odd attacklike conflicts, suddenly, for no reason. |
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The pull is the result of water surface tension within the cell walls of the mesophyll cells, from the surfaces of which evaporation takes place when the stomata are open. |
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Pipe band drummers now play on drums with very tight, knitted kevlar heads, designed for maximum tension to create a very crisp and strident sound. |
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The need to resist compression of the lower chord is seen in the use of wooden poles while the tension of the upper chord is shown by the outstretched arms. |
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Tension is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible. |
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Commonly, the structure distributes the tension via the anchor arms to the outermost supports, while the compression is carried to the foundations beneath the central towers. |
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Tension caused by Frankish expansion to the south of Scandinavia and their subsequent attacks upon the Viking peoples. |
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Edward's control of Gascony created tension with the French kings. |
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Tension also grew across North Wales, where opposition to the 1211 treaty between John and Llywelyn was turning into open conflict. |
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In some German states in theory it is possible for communities to draft citizens for public services, called Hand and Tension Services. |
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Tension and violence grew in November 1990 when the ANC started recruiting drives in various townships in the KwaZulu homeland. |
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From 1180 to 1183 the tension between Henry and Richard grew, as King Henry commanded Richard to pay homage to Henry the Young King, but Richard refused. |
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This global configuration of economic and class relations within the conglomerate structure of the Mondragon cooperatives is in deep tension with its cooperativist principles. |
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Tension was simmering in the state since September 24, when a local Hindu outfit in Godhra called for a ban on Muslims taking part in Garba and Navaratri festivities. |
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Tension between empirical and theoretical knowledge is keystone to sociological and to organizational theories, as early as in Marx's and Weber's frameworks. |
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Tension is created by delaying what the audience sees as inevitable. |
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Tension between them increases as Luke takes out his frustrations on Josh. |
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Tension had steadily risen after the Schlieffen Plan to smash through Belgium and take Paris by storm bogged down in Flanders and northern France. |
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Now, Savasana is about relaxation, but what prevents relaxation? Tension. |
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