Word: tensioning
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During the first quarter, tension permeated the Canaday Common Room, as twenty viewers—mostly males—leaned silently and intently towards the television. A football-shaped cake lay nearby, half-eaten...
...Tension mounted in the game’s final minute, as the Steelers scored a touchdown and the Cardinals seemed upon the verge of countering with a touchdown of their own. In the end, though, the Cardinals could not convert...
...deep tension was built in from the start of the stimulus debate, when Obama stressed both the need for speed and the need for change. There is trauma surgery, and there is transplant surgery; one usually takes a lot longer than the other, and you'd be insane to try to do both together. So I wondered why he seemed to set himself up to fail, insisting that lawmakers do something very big, very hard, very fast, and in a whole...
...Southeast Asia, despite its relatively small geographic size. Here are five ethnicities, some of who have unsuccessfully waged long insurgencies against the central government and others who have made news recently because of the abuses they have suffered at the hands of the Burman-dominated regime. (See pictures of tension in Burma...
Still, the council leaders are not alone in targeting yoga as a distracting influence to good Muslims. In neighboring Malaysia, a formal ban on yoga was issued last year and is still in place, a move that many Malaysians worried would heighten religious tension in the country. "I think the fatwa was issued now because of their ties to clerics in Malaysia," suggests Hamid Basyaib of the Liberal Islam Network. Many doubt it will have much effect. "The council is trying to reassert its authority among Muslims as the guardians of Islamic belief," says Azyumardi Azra, director of graduate studies...