"tension" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Tension with the Roman Catholic Church, the major voice for societal change, peaked in the early 1980s with the expulsion of foreign priests involved in political and land reform issues.
- Tensions peaked in early October 1989, as protests were growing and the specter of Tiananmen Square hung in the air.
- Tensions between Reclamation and the district farmers peaked during the 1920s, until on January 2, 1927 the two sides settled their dispute with a new contract.
- Tensions between the two governments peaked again during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
- Tensions this week peaked on Wednesday, when Governor Bush suddenly suggested he might send state agents to force the reinsertion of the feeding tube.
- Tensions during the match peaked when South Korea closed the first half, leading by one point.
- Tension peaking at one fifty - I repeat, one fifty percent.
- Tensions with the police peaked in June 1966, when the construction worker Jan Weggelaar died during a demonstration.
- Tensions peaked in 1997, when Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan threatened to join marchers to protest racial violence against the Irish.
- Tensions peaked when Pizango responded to the government's threat to send in troops by stating that "Indigenous people are defending themselves against government aggression."
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