• Mathematicians develop a powerful attachment to elegance and depth, which are in tension with, if not directly opposed to, mechanical calculation.

    FORBES: What Is It Like to Have an Understanding of Very Advanced Mathematics?

  • Wide-ranging, flexible and broad learning, the kind we encourage in high-school and college, may actually be in tension with the ability to develop finely-honed, controlled, focused expertise in a particular skill, the kind of learning that once routinely took place in human societies.

    WSJ: What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?

  • Yet as Lipset and others have argued, these values can be in serious tension with each other.

    CNN: 2012 winner must unite America on ideals

  • This intricate web of history places the Middle Eastern societies in a special tension with Europe that is not similarly present in the story of modern India, nor China.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • There's always a natural tension in working with Cisco these days, says Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief technology officer.

    FORBES: What Makes Cisco Run

  • The air in the room stiffened with tension, but neither one gave in.

    NEWYORKER: The Visitor

  • The court heard his "obsession" led to tension in his relationship with his alleged victim.

    BBC: Eystna Blunnie death: Accused 'obsessed' with Guitar Hero

  • Police said Mr Didier's motive remained unclear and there was no evidence of tension in his relationship with Ms Creegan.

    BBC: Norfolk Broads deaths: Annette Creegan killed by partner

  • The developers at the panel were also enthusiastic about Connect, but their banter may have belied the tension in their relationship with Facebook.

    FORBES: Social Games Look To Outgrow Facebook

  • Collingwood, who was out with 13 overs left in the day, admitted he was finding the tension much easier to cope with while he was out in the middle.

    BBC: Ball-tampering row angers Strauss despite draw

  • You had these contrasting families, and, as I write in the book, he learned to deal with conflict and tension early on in his life, and went on to readily generate it as an adult.

    CNN: Even in dissent, Scalia stirs controversy

  • James Sullivan, a graduate student who gravitates toward esoteric works by such composers as Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina, said he was struggling with tension in his shoulders and in his bow arm before he discovered the unique thrill of throwing a hard right hook.

    WSJ: Music Students Hit the Boxing Ring

  • Allen, the coalition commander in Afghanistan, met Friday with army officers in Pakistan to reduce rising tension on the poorly demarcated border.

    WSJ: Airstrike Ravages U.S.-Pakistan Ties

  • That can create some tension with the women in their lives.

    WSJ: The Twin Houses of an Odd Couple

  • That sentiment is found even in places once linked with political tension, such as Chiapas state and Oaxaca City, where political protest turned into a stand-off in 2006.

    CNN: Travel expert: Why you should go to Mexico

  • We still work throughout central Haiti but have also worked in seven other countries, pursuing, along with thousands of others, two goals in tension: high-quality health care for the patient in front of us, but thinking, whenever possible, of the tens of millions more who need the same services.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As Microsoft slowly leaves the legacy world behind in order to keep up with its rivals, a tension will be introduced into the market along a fault line I highlighted in a previous column: the x86-ARM divide, which falls at the bottom of the stack shown in the graphic at the top of the page.

    FORBES: Windows Devices: The Future Is Called RT

  • In South Korea, periods of elevated tension with the North have tended to encourage coordination with the U.S. and other allies, including Japan.

    WSJ: U.S. Nudges Seoul, Tokyo to Mend Ties

  • Mr Kjos' vision - accompanied by statements such as "in Asia, people in aviation have a tenth of the salary in Scandinavia" - has created tension with both pilots, cabin crews and even the government at home, where he has been accused of social dumping, but he insists he has no choice.

    BBC: Norwegian airline prepares for global expansion

  • In 1976, after four years of intermittent tension, Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Uganda, the first time in 30 years that a British government had taken such a drastic step against another country.

    CNN: Monday,

  • One beneficiary of the tension in Asia will be South Africa, with its wealth of gold and other commodities.

    FORBES: Short the West

  • But despite these differences, there does not seem to be any tension in St John's Church, with both faiths having learnt to respect each other.

    BBC: Christian Church opens doors to Muslims

  • While the popular mood in Belgrade remains defiant, unease beneath the bravado is growing, along with tension between people who genuinely support Mr Milosevic and those who mistrust him but have rallied round in Serbia's hour of need.

    ECONOMIST: No end in sight

  • But Hammami had a falling out with al-Shabab and has engaged in a public fight with the group over the last year amid signs of increasing tension between Somalis and foreign fighters in the group.

    NPR: American Jihadi In Somalia Tweets On Kill Attempt

  • That UK-Ecuador dispute is the focal point of the current tension, with both nations appearing firm in their positions.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • And in the many ways that parenting mirrors hard choices elsewhere, we often face that same tension in other parts of our lives, though with far murkier, less primal distinctions.

    FORBES: The Lies We Tell Ourselves That Hold Us Back

  • The teams cranked up the tension with the first scoreless first quarter in the 21-year history of the SEC title game, then busted the game open in the second half.

    WSJ: Alabama Beats Georgia in SEC Championship: The SEC Officially Rules the Universe

  • CNN's Brent Sadler said that with interfaith unity and increasing tension in the Middle East topping the agenda, John Paul II is tackling some of the most difficult diplomatic and theological problems of his papacy on the second leg of his pilgrimage in the footsteps of St Paul.

    CNN: Pope pleads for Muslim, Christian forgiveness

  • In this wondrously accomplished and furiously expressive drama blending the moody rambles of a road movie with the tightly ratcheted criminal tension of a film noir the director Amy Seimetz, in her first feature, captures the wildly flailing energy and exhausted torpor of grinding frustration as well as the flickering grace of stifled dreams.

    NEWYORKER: Sun Don't Shine

  • And it would be easy to see his relationship with his party, and the fundamental tension in it, as broadly the same as Mr Blair's: ie, that it tolerates him because he has allowed it to taste power after decades in the wilderness.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

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