Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tension between the shelter and the community has intensified over the past few weeks, with public community meetings breaking out into shouting matches. In addition to raising questions about the safety of the shelter, residents have also called CASPAR a well-intentioned but misguided program...
Supporters and opponents will meet next Tuesday for another time to try to come to terms over the proposed site, but it is doubtful whether that session will be able to ease the tension surrounding the proposed move...
...tension between these divided loyalties animates nearly all of Walcott's poetry. Rather than seeing his position as impossible -- a poet on the margins of two mutually exclusive cultures -- Walcott adopted this dilemma as one of his principal subjects. In this respect, much of his work is self-conscious; the point of contact between language and experience is, of necessity, the presiding poet, and the more difficult this contact is, the more visible the poet's struggle becomes...
Fowler says that the she was worried about the new position at first, but the tension soon wore...
...central project of humanity has got to be something like restoration of a sense of community. The problem is the inherent tension between democracy and community. Giving up some individual rights to communities may be a necessary price. You cannot have the kind of culture that absolutizes human rights at the same time you strive for community. One has to come at the expense of the other...