Word: tensioning
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...cathedrals of Europe evoked a “longing for something that wasn’t fulfilled,” which, coupled with his rebellious streak, ushered in the start of Clayton’s “inner quest for meaning.” This “tension between the best of rationality and the richness of faith” would continue to manifest itself in Clayton’s scholarship...
Clayton maintains his stance as a scholar of theism as well as of theoretical biology and neuroscience, seeking to “explore all the areas of tension and sometimes of harmony...
...just over $1,000, a fortune considering he made just a few hundred dollars a year. "I told him it was not affordable, not needed," says his father Vijay. "He said he needed it to get to the fields. The young these days-they want more luxuries with less tension." Pravin had taken a loan from a local banking cooperative for the motorbike, and further loans from moneylenders to buy seeds, fertilizer and pesticide. But like most rural Indian men, conservative and proud, he had not discussed his worries with his wife. "He was smiling all the time," says Smita...
...issue is cyclical, and, at the end of the day, that is its most basic tension...
...Hamas decided to contest the January 2006 elections and won a dramatic victory - one which neither Washington, alarmed by Hamas's hostility to Israel's very existence, nor many of the Fatah activists whose power of patronage required holding onto the machinery of government, were prepared to accept. After tension between the two sides erupted in violence earlier this year, Saudi Arabia brokered a power-sharing agreement that created a unity government. But as of last weekend, the unity government appears to be on the verge of collapse amid fierce new fighting between gunmen of the two parties, and Hamas...