"tension" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The race reveals the political competition being ushered in by new term-limit laws and also reopens the long-simmering political tensions among the city's Dominican immigrants.
- Meanwhile, sparked by the tragedy, long-simmering tensions are dividing the camp.
- His comments brought to a boil long-simmering tensions with Mr. Rumsfeld, who had been scrubbing the war plans to reduce the number of invading troops.
- Local people said that the seizure of the station's transmitters on Sunday ignited long-simmering tensions among the young and impoverished.
- The long-simmering tension boiled over into a public rift with the 2000 presidential elections.
- This constitutes a significant departure from current practice, particularly given the long-simmering tensions between active-duty commanders and their National Guard counterparts.
- The statement was the most detailed by the United States since last week, when the long-simmering tension between Ethiopia and Somalia boiled over.
- This conceptual opening paved the way for the discussion of long-simmering tensions over internal matters like the role of religion in the Jewish state.
- The shock of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States exposed long-simmering tensions between conservative Muslim immigrants and this city's liberal traditions.
- The showdown over the Albania mission flushed out long-simmering tensions in his Olive Tree coalition.
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