With tensions escalating,

The issues were, of course, ethnic sectarian violence.

We're constantly creating tensions and conflicts.

Would you like to see civil war, sectarian killing?

The President's speech was calculated to ease world tensions.

We want to neutralize the tensions. We want closeness.

There are signs of growing tensions between the two countries.

Where there's a weapon, there's crime. Tensions rose, and rose.

For some, it will lead to anger, religious and sectarian violence and terrorism.

You begin to look at things having to do with your tensions.

The current situation in the Middle East is a time bomb of tensions.

Will there be tensions over immigration, or conflicts over competition for limited resources?

They would bring prosperity, security, overcome sectarian violence, ensure that states would never again harbor terrorists.

I will have to take up tensions that are much more serious than this.

Most importantly, the basic income would lead to an escalation of the existing social tensions.

This is producing all sorts of tensions, all sorts of dynamics that are deeply disturbing.

Tensions between these two families date back to 1913 when there was a dispute over local political power.

And these tensions have deep evolutionary roots, so selfish behavior is adaptive in certain circumstances fight or flight.

And we must remain engaged to assure that what began with citizens demanding their rights does not end in a cycle of sectarian violence.

Negotiations are difficult, the tensions are high, progress is slow, and then, 10 minutes to 2, a prime minister shouts out,

And so with all these crises, we have let's see ethnic and minority tensions we have chemical and nuclear spills, nuclear proliferation.

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 went through a period of feeling that the lesson learned from Bosnia was that elections held too early enshrined sectarian violence, enshrined extremist parties, so in Iraq in 2003 the decision was made,

In the Quran, religious opinion religious orthodoxy is dismissed as zanna self indulgent guesswork about matters that nobody can be certain of one way or the other, but which makes people quarrelsome and stupidly sectarian.

(Filmmaker) With about 500 undocumented immigrants entering into Greece everyday, and with the economic situation showing no signs of improvement, it's safe to say the tensions in Greece are likely to get worse.

I believe that there are new, hidden tensions that are actually happening between people and institutions institutions that are the institutions that people inhabit in their daily life schools, hospitals, workplaces, factories, offices, etc.

More broadly, the events of the last two weeks also speak to the need for all of us to honestly address the tensions between the West and the Arab World that is moving towards democracy.

Kuwait has just held its eleventh parliamentary election since independence in 1961. Though Kuwait is a monarchy, its parliamentary history has not been placid, and the election campaign reflected ongoing tensions between the royal family and segments of the electorate.

For 10 years, unfortunately we have found ourselves reporting images of destruction, images of killing, of sectarian conflicts, images of violence, emerging from a magnificent piece of land, a region that one day was the source of civilizations and art and culture for thousands of years.

I think he can help us all through a sound management of the U.S. economy, which he s trying hard to achieve, just as we can help him by avoiding the explosion of tensions to the world economy out of the euro zone.

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.

The kind of dichotomies, and the kind of tensions, and the antagonisms from a civil war are still here and they are re emerging now, but for the time being they are being covered under the civility of a country that's still, just about, supposed to be part of the global West and aspiring to this idea of global progress, capitalist euphoria, and development and so on and so forth... (Gelly, Solidarity activist) Here in Greece... it's the civil war syndrome I call it.