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- noun Plural form of
tension . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
tension .
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Examples
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KUHN: Behind the tensions is a disagreement about recent cross-border raids by NATO helicopters, and the deaths of three Pakistani border guards yesterday.
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I'll ask her about Iran, Iraq and what she calls the tensions between America and the Middle East.
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The blockade appeared to be a major escalation in tensions between Pakistan and the United States.
Pakistan Cuts NATO Supply Line In Apparent Retaliation For Killed Troops AP 2010
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The blockade appeared to be a major escalation in tensions between Pakistan and the United States.
Pakistan Cuts NATO Supply Line In Apparent Retaliation For Killed Troops AP 2010
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A major source of those tensions is a U. N.-backed tribunal investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri.
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The blockade appeared to be a major escalation in tensions between Pakistan and the United States.
Pakistan Cuts NATO Supply Line In Apparent Retaliation For Killed Troops The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Some attribute the emergence of the democratic uprisings to historic long-term tensions between different ethnic groups which include Alaawite, Syrian Turkmen, Armenians, Druze, Sunnis and the Assyrians a significant Christian minority in Syria.
Majid Rafizadeh: The Character of Syria's Upheavals Majid Rafizadeh 2011
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All of this would help defuse short-term tensions around currency valuation, trade access and intellectual-property violations.
Forging a Stronger U.S.-China Relationship: More Carrot Than Stick Andrew Browne 2011
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The Bush administration's decision to sign seperate deals with individual countries instead of with the EU has caused certain tensions in Europe.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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But the real impetus for sectarian tensions is the fact that Iraq's Sunni, Shi'a and Kurds simply don't like each other very much.
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