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They report they found an overall new optimism termed «Europhoria,) to be tempered by new unwielding tensions.
How has he not been reduced to bludgeoning stewbums at railroad yards to release the tensions?
Irrespective of whether a fudge is found on the policing issue, continuing tensions are inevitable.
The twenty-year debate over literacy test legislation intertwined with many of the contradictions and tensions of the Progressive Era.
With the Lebanese government balking at an international investigation into the murder, tensions are rising and positions hardening.
This pairing of allied opposites enabled writers to cross-fertilise the two disciplines and personalities to help build on-screen tensions.
Lastly, we cannot ignore the tensions in the Gulf, where a warlike situation exists.
Economic development creates its own dynamics and tensions in the social and political spheres, which must be addressed.
You see, with one particular male-female dyad, provocative tensions were escalating rapidly.
All the tracks were written by teenagers and the lyrics exposed racial tensions and claims that the council had neglected the area.
Highlighting the tensions between the two neighbors, India on Sunday shot down what is says was an unmanned Pakistani spy plane over Kashmir.
Odd tensions and feelings and questions and uncertainties and so on abound in my little head.
Caught in a skein of unresolved tensions, unspoken fear, and undefined destinations, the children adjust in their silent, obscure manner.
They also had to build a truly non-racial society, as well as end any ethnic tensions that might exist.
Gone are the times when tensions would erupt in a blizzard of savage brutality.
The eastern enlargement of the EU takes place against the background of growing transatlantic tensions.
The international community has nervously watched the spike in tensions in the country.
How do they cope with the inevitable tensions that arise in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious society?
As the death toll from the plague mounted, so did tensions between the warlike Mongols and Italians plying their trade on the Black Sea.
In considering how such tensions can be resolved there is an important difference between monists and pluralists in philosophy.
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The recent turndown in tourism has only exacerbated the territory's economic difficulties and heightened political and social tensions.
They were strict disciplinarians and when his university results slipped, tensions in the house increased.
With international tensions relaxed, their destinies are uncertain and their loyalties up for grabs to the highest bidder.
It must be rigid enough to promote near zero surface tensions during the alveolar compression.
The Treaty framers might have hoped that these tensions would be short-lived.
And tensions ran high as well, forcing a county judge there to warn vote counters and observers to be more civil toward each other.
Justified or not, the call for reparations seems to me to be based around shoring up racial tensions rather than diffusing them.
Obviously, tensions are on the upswing here, but how do we balance between a carrot and a stick approach?
This line of reasoning can only end in unprofitable speculation about who initiated tensions.
Police said they were not aware of any similar tensions at the new skate park in Braintree.
The unilateral changing of formularies would make impossible such a creative relaxation of tensions.
The tensions erupted into open clashes between the two sides last month, leaving two people dead.
In the multipolar world that has ensued from the end of the Cold War, submerged tensions between the US and Europe have come out into the open.
But the Pakistani president is no more able than his predecessors to solve the country's underlying ethnic and communal tensions.
Although economically dependent upon the EU, as soon as tensions arise they side with the US politically.
The painting gracefully combines the classical ideal of stability with Romanticism's restless play of unresolvable tensions.
The group will be entering a country where political tensions threaten to reach boiling point, with looming elections and bitter infighting.
For example, his grandmother seems to have been classically repressed and sublimated her tensions by repeated whippings of Paul.
It's a little scorcher that gets right to the heart of the tensions that arise in depressed communities when refugees arrive.
The neuro muscular tensions altered m such a way that they show a prolonged way of reaction with paroxysmal discharges and tetanoid states.
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As well as the riot in Aba there are reports of tensions in the neighbouring city of Owerri and the market town of Onitsha.
Their lives have been indelibly marked by the country's political and ethnic tensions.
Balthus's paintings aim at a classical order and refined estheticism, yet within this timelessness lurk subliminal tensions.
The club has invited professional masseuses to knead away the body tensions.
Sadr's decision will also exacerbate sectarian tensions between the Sunni and Shiite elite.
Certain tensions created by different theological understandings now were forced to exist side by side in a new union of churches.
Such intervention most often heightens divisions and tensions around the world rather than bringing peace.
Craniosacral therapy can help by calming your central nervous system and relaxing muscular tensions.
Golden State's Thompson stoked the tensions before the series when he accused the Clippers' player of flopping.
It's at the coast that the tensions of small-town life are subsumed by the thrill and excitement of surging surf.
La Traviata is an intimate story of family tensions and blighted love, following a Parisian courtesan who falls for a younger man.
Social tensions are so pronounced that even the reactionary clerics speak of reform.
Politicians from North and South redesigned popular sovereignty to lessen sectional tensions.
The surtax of 45 per cent to alleviate unemployment drove a wedge between rural France and Paris, further fuelling class tensions.
In fact, Western intervention in the Balkans exacerbated tensions and sustained hostilities.
He also tries to relieve tensions between theology and Darwinian evolution, particularly in regard to issues of purpose and ultimacy.
Thoughts of suspicion diffused outward from his center, and he purged himself of tensions.
The environment needs to be unquestionably safe for Mum and myself to coexist in harmony, and tensions were beginning to fray.
As illusions fade and the reality of East Timor's predicament becomes apparent, social tensions and class antagonisms will rapidly deepen.
In northern Iraq, sectarian tensions are also escalating in the wake of the referendum.
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The British National Party and National Front have fanned the resulting social tensions.
Unlike others writing on this period, he accords due weight to such matters as popular religion, ethnic tensions, and foreign affairs.
But the North has in the past raised tensions to attract attention or before climbing down to a compromise or concession.
He has redirected attention to moments of Hamlet's lucidity and thus belied the prince's darker psychological tensions.
However, their every utterance is designed to inflame fears and tensions and give succour to the fascists.
One of the major culprits in building up tensions is the nagging thought of the accumulated small jobs put off from day to day.
Although government forces recaptured Bukavu on June 9, tensions remain high.
He feels the story is relevant in the context of communal tensions the country is facing now.
Certain elements within the ruling class regarded the party as a useful potential safety valve amid mounting social tensions.
Cultural tensions between city and rural ways of life have been simmering in Ireland in recent years, as they have in Britain.
But underlying all this, there are tensions born of age-old rivalries, long unsettled land disputes and of arguments long forgotten.
Anglo-American air power relations have successfully weathered serious political tensions because leaders have focused on strategic goals.
The book addresses subjects from exam-eve tensions to jitters before making a business presentation and everyday anxieties.
He attributed the rise of radicals more to social tensions that followed the 1998 economic and political crisis.
For one participant being a whangai was seen to provide both benefits and tensions.
He noted the role of my father and also took note of the tensions between my parents.
Laughter is an invigorating tonic that heightens and brightens the mood, gently releasing us from tensions and social constraints.
Meanwhile, the 1970s recession and unmanaged racial tensions had led most European countries to adopt an official policy of zero immigration.
Regional tensions between chiefs from each of the three traditional confederacies have played a part.
Under these conditions, inspired gas concentrations can be manipulated to effect surreptitiously desired changes in alveolar gas tensions.
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As tensions have spiraled between Pyongyang and the US, Anti-American sentiment has exploded in South Korea.
From this dual Anglo-French heritage come the constitutional tensions of modern Canada.
It deals with the tensions of the 21st century city in the context of these pervading, seductive, Old World instincts.
The decorative, formal and iconographical nature of the artworks veil the confused personal tensions always present in relationships.
When three schools were integrated in 1971 to form the high school, racial tensions ran high.
Even as the Kurds celebrate their success in becoming powerbrokers of the new Iraqi government, some old tensions are re-emerging.
The pressure was strong for her to make a dynastically advantageous marriage, and this seems to have led to tensions between mother and daughter.
This means a hardened Euro-sceptical rhetoric from him, but also heightened tensions with the real Tory Euro-sceptics over withdrawal.
The history of this problem indicates that these controversies are reflections of irresolvable tensions in our thought about agency.
Is my description really one of ineffective practices, or is it a reflection of the tensions inherent in a classroom like this?
You do not have to be a UKIP refusenik to recognise that these tensions are becoming intolerable.
But family tensions and feuds bring their own stresses at this time of year and can ruin the big day for children and adults alike.
The long-flowing lines smile euphoniously, without generating harsh inner tensions, and evoking a serenity appropriate to G major's blessedness.
If anything, it has been exacerbated by recent global tensions, those irritating near-wars which push up the temperature and make leaders edgy.
The beneficiaries were profiteers from war industries whose boldly flaunted new wealth intensified social tensions.
Such tensions may well result in an increase in observed decoupling in share repurchase programs for those firms.
Schools that have a diverse student body are likely to experience interethnic tensions.
By the time he was born the South's undying racial tensions and growing lawlessness forced his parents out of town.
Such were the tensions and internal contradictions of his rather unhappy life that you feel relief for the man when he finally dies.
His natural reserve has probably served to disarm any possible tensions in a dressing-room with as many notable egos.
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Any society which deals in both hard and soft currencies is prone to new divisions and tensions.
The ploy was intended to defuse tensions and pre-empt a possible rebellion in the Campo.
Khan said that the tensions cannot be reduced as long as the concentration of the Indian troops on the borders continues.
These discussions take place against a backdrop of deepening economic crisis and rising social tensions.
Disraeli saw its dangers and wished to take steps to quickly defuse the gathering tensions.
Paradoxically, social tensions increased, since this growth accentuated glaring social inequalities.
On the other hand, it is arguably in the national interest to de-escalate tensions.
The director admits that these deep-seated tensions affected his own family experience as well.
But its demands for regime change and its military manoeuvres are increasing tensions at the same time.
It was a crime that finally ignited a powder keg and caused simmering tensions to erupt into violence.
A horrific attack on father and daughter exposes the unspoken tensions in their relationship.
Sectarian tensions had already been running high, and the abductions threaten to provoke armed conflict.
It can only mean an escalation of political tensions throughout the Middle East.
The poet Seamus Heaney was careful to distance himself from the political tensions of his native Ulster.
It could ease tensions and improve ties between the bitter political rivals.
The union officials called the strike in an effort to diffuse explosive social tensions.
When food and fuel subsidies go, people riot and social tensions stoke the flames.
The danger of war is growing even now as social tensions and conflicts increase.
The political struggle touched off traditional tensions between the two groups.
This was not a school rife with racial tensions, nor was it a failing school, and I look back on it fondly.
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Some regard his positions as a reckless manoeuvre that will exacerbate racial tensions.
As a result there were tensions in the relationship, which involved regular arguments.
This has already had the effect of increasing tensions and is fomenting political hatred.
The real economic and class tensions are coming to the surface of American political life.
Firstly, that outsider groups can, and do, problematise their own history and reconstruct it to solve present day tensions.
In this regard, Longley hypothesizes that the historical tensions between French Canadians and English Canadians may be at the root of the issue.
Everybody gets on because we can all defuse our cross-cultural tensions by cracking jokes about our belief systems and ourselves.
His forceful opposition to the war caused renewed tensions and confirmed the Gaullism that is the bedrock of his political soul.
I've never known a holiday to be spoiled, or even darkened, by an argument, by tensions that crackle and erupt in sharp words.
Following a period of tensions and preparations for war the opposing sides simultaneously open military operations by launching counterstrokes.
It is very sad that because of such strikes, the health sector remains on edge, deep tensions dividing it.
The French ruled through skilfully exploiting the tensions between the dominant ethnic groups, the Afar and the Issa.
By midwinter these intraband tensions were exacerbated as Big Road's own young men reacted suspiciously to their leader's preferment.
The two sides also wanted to highlight the levels of racial tensions in grassroots football in the North West.
With tensions running high, regional and national leaders were brought in to mediate the dispute.
And the rapprochement between China and South Korea has helped temper Cold War tensions in Northeast Asia.
He acknowledged, however, that further support may be necessary if the economy fails to pick up when geopolitical tensions had eased.
Moreover, beginning in 1991, tensions between Afars and the Issa-dominated government resulted in an Afar rebellion.
We go back in time to trace the tensions between Sudanese, Arabs and black Africans.
The two women, Ruth and Anna, have play-acted these characters over the years as a way of relieving tensions.
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On the other hand, some suggested the result may help ease tensions in strained cross-strait relations.
As tensions continue over the company's future, its executives have been abandoning ship at a rapid pace.
In the years ahead tensions over water may flare in regions outside the Middle East as well.
Temporary tensions of daily living do not disturb the underlying stability of love that is wisely expressed.
Frequently theatrical and melodramatic, it captured the tensions of wartime Britain, thriving in enforced isolation.
Cross-cultural misunderstandings and tensions within these civil-military shotgun marriages have led many on both sides to long for a divorce.
In that work a thematics of the social tensions around connection and disconnection is articulated visually.
To release your physical tensions, march in time to the music as you are singing.
As Ma's condition worsens, the siblings are forced to face up to various family tensions.
The Chechens are divisible into several tribes, and intertribal tensions are a part of Chechnya history.
As the powder keg of ethnic tensions in the region exploded, the camps were targeted by militias who launched lethal firebomb attacks.
Devotees believe that, if enough people meditate in a community, social tensions ease and crime rates fall.
Years later, amid Cold War tensions, Democratic President John F. Kennedy chose Republican Douglas Dillon as Treasury Secretary.
An atmosphere of warmth and intimacy is created, and long-held bodily tensions are released.
Very often we have to work shoulder to shoulder with one another and do not want a situation that compromises that fraternity or causes tensions.
Line tensions and director fields depend on the elastic moduli and the spontaneous curvatures of the raft and the surround.
And in Fiji, tensions continued between its indigenous and its ethnic Indian populations.
They said his continuation in office was ensuring that the tensions remained.
The set of four gouaches on paper ambiguously stages tensions among the four men in a barren gray landscape.
Instead, both parties continue to rally their tribes, inciting racial tensions and pursuing selfish agendas.
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There is no doubt that summer is one sexy season full of people shedding tensions and clothes.
Whenever you have tensions running high and military forces in close proximity to each other, you have the potential for conflict.
You are released from tensions and restrictions when you make important decisions.
Though there were tensions between these two communities at times, there was also overlap, cultural exchange, and camaraderie between blacks and Chicanos.
It was the boiling point of tensions that Nigeria had seen bubble over for years.
Each political party had its representatives in the airline's management, and the tensions between the Walloon and Flemish halves created further conflicts.
Outside, again, tensions have not been this high in the Chechen capital for years.
The Iranian and Hezbollah intervention in Syria this spring has exacerbated the tensions to the boiling point.
The Brawley case inflamed racial tensions in America and left victims like the falsely accused Pagones in its wake.
When ethnic tensions turned violent in 2004, her family headed to a refugee camp in Burundi.
The book combines historical analysis of documents with literary reading of censored texts and exposes the kinds of tensions that really mattered in Jacobean culture.
The 1983 Downing of KAL 007 sharpened American tensions with the Soviet Union to heights not seen since the Cuban missile crisis.
Alleviation of tensions requires restraint on the part of many parties.
Other reports of Dinka being dumped in a mass grave in the rebel-controlled oil town of Bentiu have further inflamed tensions.
But above and beyond these tensions, there was usually a powerful sense of all-American values which held US society together as a coherent and dynamic whole.
And with that, tensions between Michael and dunder Mifflin's HR rep boil over.
You see, tensions run even higher because we actually live in a duplex.
The Royal visit by the Earl and countess of Wessex to the territory raised tensions in Spain.
In a time of increased tensions, is further segregation really the answer?
The family, and Jeb Bush in particular, manages to reconcile many of the tensions and contradictions that have rankled the party.
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Showing images of mere reversal may in fact provide a safety valve for the social tensions that the women's movement has created by demanding a more dominant role for women.
The historic election sheared off a thin facade of wartime national unity and reinforced ethnic and sectarian tensions that have plagued the country for centuries.
She was born Hetty Robinson into a wealthy New Bedford, Mass., clan whose tensions undoubtedly shaped her quirky character.
The tensions here arise from the notion that democracies decide to go to war as nations, not by dint of decree.
The separation of different population groups increased intercultural tensions and the different rates of progress led to political unrest and instability.
Police ceded Taksim on June 1, following days of clashes, in an effort to defuse tensions.
It does, however, authorize and inform the tensions between the past and the present, the historical event and its representation, that I have been describing.
Thus Skalkottas, although continuing the motivic development, follows the essential principle of traditional sonata form and resolves the previous harmonic tensions.
Political tensions exist between sedentary peoples and nomads.
Sometimes when tensions run high, even our esteemed elders show a certain lack of maturity.
An easing of tensions between al Qaeda and ISIS presents dangers for America in its military campaign in the Levant.
Markets remain fragile and are easily upset by international tensions.
Even in the midst of all the merriment, however, were reminders of the ongoing tensions within conservatism.
The political tensions between Quebecois and Acadiens are probably as pronounced today as they are between English-speaking Ontarians and Quebecois.
All of us too locked into our tensions, complexes and obsessions to ever realise it or notice it, like a bunch of clueless gnostic demiurges fallen into matter.
This is much more about tensions within different sections of communities.
They ended four hours and a couple hundred miles away in Virginia, succumbing to the normal internal tensions and apathy, the all-too-common whimper instead of a bang.
Ongoing tensions between Moscow and Kiev could threaten those supply lines, leaving Russians there stranded.
The agreement lessened the stranglehold India-Pakistan tensions had put on trade in the region for decades.
With luck, once the matches begin, the tensions will subside with the suds on a cold Budweiser.
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Early in 1999 Sharif invited then-Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee to Lahore to talk about reducing tensions.
Recent studies have shown how reported speech can work in interaction, giving participants a way of dealing with possible tensions and signalling intended frames.
And the onslaught of the elements has helped raise tensions to the point where a new explosion is expected any day.
In 1965, amid political tensions, regional elections were rigged by the ruling party in Western Nigeria.
The fact that these tensions are present even at the epicenter of the mindfulness world is telling.
They also suggest that the area's history of fusion and fission present a microcosm of the ethnic and political tensions of the Nigerian nation since independence.
Political tensions are underlying every move in Nigeria, where, in February, the next presidential candidates will be nominated.
Workplace tensions, whether related to compensation issues, unrealistic profit margins or setting rapid growth goals, can create an environment ripe for fraud.
The natural stimulus for bone to maintain its functional strength is the loading which results from gravitational forces and the tensions exerted by muscular activity.
In a nod to existing Cold War tensions, Gozer is played by Serbian model Slavitza Jovan.
Women have become more professional and independent, so a lot of them are looking at role revisal to relieve similar tensions.
And, of course, greater freedom and choice bring new tensions into play.
Shortages of food, clothes, and other essential items exacerbated ethnic tensions between the local Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kyrgiz and the Russian Diaspora.
Ethnographies that highlight the historicity, lack of typicality, and internal tensions make generalizations across or among divergent cases quite difficult.
The simmering social tensions reached boiling point when two young men were shot and killed after hundreds of workers were involved in a blockade of the city's major roads.
The great tensions in the current Dutch side usually go undiscussed.
But given their anti-government rhetoric, the Oath Keepers' presence could inflame tensions further.
Yet this latest Naxos set is more than just a bargain alternative, offering a powerfully enjoyable experience, made the more involving by the tensions of a live staging.
Hailing, as he did, from Memphis, having grown up during the Purist tensions of the sixties and seventies, he was already sensitized to the rhetoric.
Given the ethnic tensions in the area, however, my outsider status and association with a North American farm manager helped provide access to both Kikuyu and Meru fanners.
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Rioting and looting ensued shortly after the verdict and racial tensions were tense across the United States for years to follow.
Similarly, the opportunity should be grasped to ease internal tensions.
There are still plenty of tensions and unfair situations that arise more so for women than for men.
If you decide to paint the surface, it is wise to paint both sides in order to equalise the surface tensions, which will aid the shaping of the blockboard.
Rising interethnic tensions, sparked by competition for land use between local farmers and displaced pastoralists, could threaten reconstruction across southern Sudan.
The tensions within individuals and societies, within establishments and systems, endow writing with a sense of time, and in turn writing gives direction to the times.
The Coalition parties themselves are wracked by tensions and divisions, and there are concerns among the ruling elite that the situation could well explode.
She is about 13 years old, living proof of the tensions that have grown up over decades in Redfern, passing down the generations and exploding into a full-blown race riot.
In her, we can already see the fate and the feelings of an ordinary non-Communist, caught up in the frightful tensions and agonies of the Great Purge.
If miscegenous marriages can be prohibited because of tensions suffered by the progeny, mixed religious unions could be prohibited on the same ground.
The minister said he did not resile from his account of events and continued to insist the violence was the result of a build up in tensions which had been on a slow boil for a period of time.
Its vocation is to regulate tensions and maintain equilibrium between diversity and uniformity, individuality and collectivity, to enhance social cohesion and solidarity.
Her earlier work exploited the tensions of flatness in paintings of punctures, protrusions and simple forms whose symbolic possibilities were always implicit.
This is inhumane and will create more tensions between the two countries.
Wearing one of my mother's favourite dresses in hopes to conciliate the tensions of the previous day, I walked with a light step down the creaking staircase.
Perhaps the book would have gained slightly from showing a keener devotion to the background Northumbrian tensions between Saxon and Cymric parties.
In minimum-security prisons, like the camp in Florence, Colorado where I currently am confined, racial tensions tend to dissipate, if not disappear.
As such, they also provide a kind of ethnographic record of tensions and conflicts in a society.
The diversity and fragmentation within ethnic groupings and the balance of tensions between those groups during the twentieth century prevented interethnic civil conflict.
As tensions festered among Republicans, Democratic aides passed out an unsigned one-page memorandum that they said had been distributed to Senate Republicans.
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The violence has fueled the sectarian tensions between Shiites and Sunnis.
And their deaths have heightened the tensions and the sense of foreboding that something bigger and more brutal may happen soon.
Kurt Lewin, founder of group dynamics in social psychology, found that there are systems based around any individual that give rise to tensions between individuals.
The dramatists also tend to get the office politics wrong, creating tensions and torrid love affairs between pathologists and police where there are none.
As councillors Ryan and Roche got used to their new positions with the broad support of their Council colleagues yesterday, tensions were running somewhat high elsewhere.
Hot on the heels of the November 2005 banlieue riots, tensions remained high.
Economic equitability minimizes possible tribal tensions that come as result of lack of fair sharing of public's resource.
The attempt to reassert a prophetic role with the cross-denominational Hikoi of Hope in 1998 was still underpinned by those enduring tensions.
There were renewed tensions in 2005 as hundreds of African migrants tried to storm the borders of the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta.
The following sections explore some of these contradictions, tensions and incoherencies in more detail.
Work by Orin Starn on the return of Ishi's brain to a group of Maidu in California describes similar tensions, sentiments, and ceremony.
On the other hand, Pakistan's relations with Iran have been strained at times due to sectarian tensions.
He was ousted after only a year in office due to tensions with West Pakistan's establishment and bureaucracy.
Following the easing of religious tensions there was some work to restore the cathedral.
As tensions increased, in 1844 the Home Mission Society refused to appoint a slaveholder as a missionary who had been proposed by Georgia.
Differentiating between a bias crime and a nonbias crime can be difficult, particularly in an atmosphere of heightened racial tensions.
The plot centres on the Ramsay family's anticipation of and reflection upon a visit to a lighthouse and the connected familial tensions.
Olivier did not enjoy making Wuthering Heights, and his approach to film acting, combined with a dislike for Oberon, led to tensions on set.
However, these dual goals also produce tensions within national film and television sectors.
Internationalisation brings tensions in terms of cost, benefit and opportunity.
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Held at The Belfry in England, the 1989 Ryder Cup saw the rising of tensions in the series.
The Assembly used deferments, taxes, military service substitute, and conscription to resolve the tensions.
He succeeded, and only after his ouster in 1890 did the diplomatic tensions start rising again.
The campaign created tensions between the political and military sides of the nationalist movement.
In 1992, because of growing nationalist tensions in the government, Czechoslovakia was peacefully dissolved by parliament.
Crime is on the rise and tensions throughout the city are flaring.
This caused tensions in the United States because Warsaw Pact nations now had a strong presence in the region.
There were ongoing tensions about the Provisional IRA's failure to disarm fully and sufficiently quickly.
The meeting was called to discuss Cold War tensions arising from construction of the Berlin Wall.
Although the settlers survived by farming and fishing, the initial period of settlement was marked by serious tensions among them.
While Stalin's death in 1953 slightly relaxed tensions, the situation in Europe remained an uneasy armed truce.
Although indirect conflict between Cold War powers continued through the late 1960s and early 1970s, tensions were beginning to ease.
The Dutch West India Company would eventually attempt to ease tensions between Stuyvesant and residents of New Amsterdam.
However the migration also caused political tensions between Loyalist leaders and the leaders of the existing New England Planters settlement.
Political tensions resurfaced, albeit in a new form, towards the end of the 18th century.
This caused reoccuring tensions as the Football League and its clubs tried to impose their authority over the national associations.
This trade helps lower food prices, increase food security, relieve border tensions and promote regional integration.
This trade helps lower food prices, increase food security, relieve border tensions, and promote regional integration.
Last week, the escalating tensions around holy sites in Jerusalem drew concern from the Secretary General and the UN Security Council.
The requisitioning of provisions for the royal court during the famine years only added to tensions.
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Despite these tensions the Board took over a number of existing schools and established new ones.
Throughout the 1930s, tensions built between Germany and the United Kingdom as well as its allies.
Increased racial tensions led to the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906, which left at least 27 people dead and over 70 injured.
Racial tensions between blacks and Asians in Birmingham increased after the deaths of three Asian men at the hands of a black youth.
The government should strengthen communication with nationalists, liberalists and the religious to prevent possible tensions among themselves.
Unfortunately, there is a nugget of truth to the notion of black and Hispanic tensions but, like politics, the friction tends to be very local.
The suspicions and tensions it caused in rural Ireland are the subject of Brian Friel's play Translations.
The earthquake accentuated political tensions in the Kingdom of Portugal and profoundly disrupted the country's colonial ambitions.
The Stadtholder's unexpected death in 1650 only added to the political tensions.
Much went for arms purchases that exacerbated political tensions, particularly in the Middle East.
Simmering tensions remained with the native Irish leaders even after John left for England.
Recent tensions, particularly with North Korea, have reignited the debate over the status of the JSDF and its relation to Japanese society.
Fundamentally the war was sparked by tensions over territory in the Balkans.
Pearson eased tensions by proposing the inception of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force, for which he was awarded the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize.
Abolitionists were enraged and slave owners encouraged, contributing to tensions on this subject that led to civil war.
One result was escalating social tensions in Britain, led by the militant coal miners.
Confessional tensions also reflected opposing Polish and Russian political allegiances.
I want to explore their drama and tensions through colour, texture, light, gesture and brushmark.
Instead of using the opportunity to ease the tensions between Bonn and Washington, Acheson chose to pour gasoline on the fire.
From 1983 to 1987, tensions between Jagger and Richards almost caused the band to split.

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