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Example sentences for: tensions

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"The Amazon continues to act as a safety valve for the social tensions generated by the unjust allocation of land in the rest of the country."
The continuing Indonesia turmoil leads at USA Today and the New York Times and is the top non-local story at the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times . Suharto's surprise announcement that he would step down failed to ease political tensions, because he described a gradual and vague transition to a successor, and the thousands of student protesters want him out now.
Changing the type of fabric, even if the thread color is the same, generally demands adjustment of the thread tensions and other parts of the machine.
Mrs. Clinton's mentor Marian Wright Edelman was "at the height of the 1980s U.S.-Soviet tensions ...
Despite these political tensions, Turkey is becoming an increasingly popular tourist destination, offering all the trappings of a Mediterranean paradise and a wealth of fascinating history.