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The failure to achieve a negotiated solution for Kosovo and the violence, tension and de facto partition that resulted from it have their reasons in many, many different factors.

These ideas are well known in liberal academic circles, but clergy like myself have been reluctant to air them, for fear of creating tension and division in our church communities, for fear of upsetting the simple faith of more traditional believers.

So in order to tell you about that tension, I have to first admit to you a huge fan of the Founding Fathers.

So what you have is an atmosphere of vulnerability and tension.

DK: You know, it has homey touches like a built-in fish tank in the walls, or something to be aggressive with to release tension.

If there's tension in the village, if attendance at the schools goes down and there's a friction between the teacher and the parent, the puppet calls the teacher and the parent in front of the whole village and says, "Shake hands.

I use natural reed, because natural reed has a lot of tension in it that I cannot fully control.

In my country, I have seen how the council of Islamist groups and Christian groups came together, not as a government initiative, but they came together on their own initiative to establish contact and dialogue in times where things were pretty low-key tension.

And when tension increased, they already had that dialogue, and that was a strength to deal with different issues.

An example would be in "Finding Nemo," in the short tension, you were always worried, would Dory's short-term memory make her forget whatever she was being told by Marlin.

But under that was this global tension of will we ever find Nemo in this huge, vast ocean?

This tension between the need to look deeper and the beauty and immediacy of the world, where if you even try to look deeper you've already missed what you're looking for, this tension is what makes the sculptures move.

So there was always going to be a tension within that.

There was tension in my wire, but I also could feel tension on the ground.

The skeletal support comes from an interaction between a pressurized fluid and a surrounding wall of tissue that's held in tension and reinforced with fibrous proteins.

And if you have just the wall with no fluid inside of it to put the wall in tension, you've got a little wet rag.

Let me remind you, orgasm is physiological; it is a spontaneous, involuntary release of tension, generated in response to sex-related stimuli.

I find in so many things that tension between what I can control and what I have to let go happens all the time, whether I'm creating a new radio show or just at home negotiating with my teenage sons.

The educator Parker Palmer calls it "the tragic gap," tragic not because it's sad but because it's inevitable, and my friend Dick Nodel likes to say, "You can hold that tension like a violin string and make something beautiful."

In the workplace, for example, there's often a tension over whether an employee can socialize with the boss, or refer to him or her on a first-name basis.

If two friends have a reciprocal transaction, like selling a car, it's well known that this can be a source of tension or awkwardness.

And I feel like there's an uncomfortable tension in the room right now because I should not have worn this dress.

I mean, that's the whole tension of it.

So there's some tension here between trying to get the most money but trying to goad the other player into giving you more.

Three: Sinew used in the outer layer of the limb for maximum tension storage.

And in those days, Derek, you didn't speak very much, and so there was always a moment of tension as to whether you'd actually understood what it was we were going to play and whether you'd play the right piece in the right key, and all that kind of thing.

If we can break down this sort of divide, this unease, this tension, this sense that we're not fundamentally collaborating here in driving these social problems, we can break this down, and we finally, I think, can have solutions.

But the other kind of long-span bridge which uses that tension principle is the cable-stayed bridge, and we see a lot of these.

So here's a small visual animation, as if the two sides of the brain are sort of clashing against each other to kind of make sense of the duality and the tension.

And the optical components, if you look at the inset up on the right, we had to figure out a way to manufacture lenses in paper itself at really high throughputs, so it uses a process of self-assembly and surface tension to build achromatic lenses in the paper itself.

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