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We're constantly creating tensions and conflicts.
Tensions between these two families date back to 1913 when there was a dispute over local political power.
Will there be tensions over immigration, or conflicts over competition for limited resources?
By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.
So, the most enterprising Africans end up going to work for government, and that has increased the political tensions in our countries precisely because we depend on aid.
We want to neutralize the tensions.
Years of research in Redding, Pennsylvania led her to write this play about the deindustrialization of Pennsylvania: what happened when steel left, the rage that was unleashed, the tensions that were unleashed, the racism that was unleashed by the loss of jobs.
Negotiations are difficult, the tensions are high, progress is slow, and then, 10 minutes to 2, a prime minister shouts out, "We have to finish in 10 minutes."
And while these two cities have the same population, San Diego has grown six times larger than Tijuana in the last decades, immediately thrusting us to confront the tensions and conflicts between sprawl and density, which are at the center of today's discussion about environmental sustainability.
Rising tensions culminated in the worst day of violence on February 20, which became known as Bloody Thursday.
So you can see, though, that the tensions that we've heard about in San Francisco in terms of people being concerned about gentrification and all the new tech companies that are bringing new wealth and settlement into the city are real, and you can actually see that documented here.
It shapes our understanding of the path toward peace as something again that requires top-down intervention to address national and international tensions.
Even more importantly, this common culture enables international peacebuilders to ignore the micro-level tensions that often jeopardize the macro-level settlements.
To them, the violence they see is the consequence of tensions between President Kabila and various national opponents, and tensions between Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.
In addition, these international peacebuilders view local conflicts as simply the result of national and international tensions, insufficient state authority, and what they call the Congolese people's so-called inherent penchant for violence.
And again, it's not that national and international tensions don't matter.
Maybe it's because I've completely released all tensions and let myself go.
It means being underwater, floating, with your body completely relaxed, letting go of all your tensions.
And that goes a long way towards explaining the tensions today.
And that is why their leaders think twice, step back from the brink, and decide to focus on economic ties over territorial tensions.
You begin to look at things having to do with your tensions.
This creates tensions and serious conflicts.
But the leaders in Asia do not feel the need to wave the flag, to go xenophobic, to actually allow escalation of the geopolitical and cross-border tensions.
What's certain is, all the guerrillas' manipulation was so damaging to us that even today, among some of the hostages from back then, tensions linger, passed down from all that poison that the guerrillas created.
It's the hours we spend obsessing about tasks we didn't complete or stewing about tensions with a colleague, or anxiously worrying about the future, or second-guessing decisions we've made.
Whether the downfall of the Russian monarchy was a product of the monk’s curse, or the result of political tensions decades in the making, well, we may never know.
This is producing all sorts of tensions, all sorts of dynamics that are deeply disturbing.
I've heard it said that competition for land was one of the things that led to the tensions that caused the genocide of the 1990s.
From the terrible job the movie had done, I would have never known that there were any tensions in the village.
Apart from this, racial tensions in Germany can be an interesting subject but in the Germany I know there are no gangs shooting each other in the middle of the street in clear daylight.
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