Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more compelling arguments to be made for amending the Constitution to allow for immigrant presidents rests on the tension that exists between requiring that presidential candidates be born in the United States and the Constitution's Article IV, Section 2 claims that "The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States." Though they be foreign-born, are they not citizens all the same? And as citizens, are they not entitled to the privileges and immunities of naturally-born citizens...
Innovation often disappoints us. Whether an old or a new style is the best is irrelevant: the tension between the two still exists. Such tension filled last weekend's Boston Symphony Orchestra concert...
Despite the tension surrounding the program, the performances were superb. Galway performed the Quantz concerto with a reduced orchestra. He directed the first few bars of the piece, then took up the solo theme. His was a crystalline sound, rich in the lower registers and piercing in the higher range. He attacked the beginning of each phrase and sustained his brilliant sound through each seemingly impossible passage. His playing seemed to be in a different realm from the other musicians. It was difficult to associate the beautiful bubbling sound the produced with notes on a page. The orchestra...
...when the Hebron agreement was finally signed after four months of excruciating bargaining, the Israeli Prime Minister was still not a winner. Palestinians came away convinced that Netanyahu would never yield anything to them except under extreme duress. Many Israelis wondered what real security advantage all the tension and ill will had gained them. What the rest of the world regarded as a significant breakthrough for peace ranked as total betrayal to Jewish settlers and hard-line nationalists. At bottom, both his Palestinian foes and his right-wing faithful suspected the Prime Minister of terminal insincerity...
...Despite tension between liberals and conservatives on campus, most students agree that free speech is an important goal...