Tension rose further on May 5th with the publication of the state comptroller's annual report.

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The tension rose Thursday when mutineers entered a building used by higher-level officers.

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On the final day, tension rose when President Obama was obliged to conduct negotiations with comparatively junior Chinese delegates.

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Tension rose again in the region two weeks ago after an attack on an Indian army base in Kashmir in which more than 30 people died.

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Tension rose in Macedonia , where a fragile coalition government embraces representatives of the country's Slav Macedonian majority and ethnic-Albanian minority, after fights between ethnic-Albanian nationalist guerrillas and security forces left several dead and sparked an exodus from some villages near the border with Kosovo.

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But the Swiss pulled it back to 3-3 and with one end to go - all hearts in the stadium were pumping as the tension levels rose skywards.

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Wilson, a noted hip-hop journalist, said there was a great deal of tension inside the event Sunday night before West and his girlfriend, model Amber Rose, left the show.

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