The day before, a Jewish fast-day, the main source of tension had been at Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount) in Jerusalem.

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So that was the main cause of the tension.

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His actions may have supported the public interest and attempted to lower the tension between Wall Street and Main Street, but most companies wouldn't view them as a model for effective incentive compensation programs.

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Consider, for instance, the tension between emerging economies' demand for reserves and their fear that the main reserve currency, the dollar, may lose value a dilemma first noted in 1947 by Robert Triffin, a Belgian economist.

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For many years, the tension inherent in her post was muted because few people thought it was the main job of the attorney-general to investigate the government.

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The gesturing from the ground had all but stopped from the security team but tension was in the air, a sense perhaps that there would be a main event to follow the balcony cameos.

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