When this situation exists, there is a basic or potential psychological tension.

The agreement sought to ward off potential tension between the two campaigns as the mayoral race heats up.

Freud's followers would continue to exploit the potential tension between the concepts of superego and ego ideal.

Secondly, the role poses a corresponding potential tension in the practitioner's relationship with her/ his service employing agency.

Mr. Orfield said that other potential tensions relate to competition for jobs.

But in making the selection, Mr. Bush may have introduced potential tensions within his economic team over the size and scope of future tax cuts.

Meacham thinks that the village atmosphere defuses the potential tension of the rivalry.

Mr. Fordham's history illustrates the potential tensions between private life and professional rhetoric.

Another point of potential tension is the hemispheric free-trade talks, which are supposed to reach an agreement by 2005.

Around this time, the Alcott family set up a sort of domestic post office to curb potential domestic tension.