TOKYO When faced with domestic worries, politicians often resort to foreign diversions a simple axiom that is highly useful in assessing the increasingly tense sovereignty disputes in the East and South China Seas.

The situation in the area remains tense.

All of this worsens an already tense situation.

In summary, the overall security situation remains tense.

As a result, relations among regional actors remain tense.

The mood amongst supporters of the revolution is tense.

WARSAW It was a hot day and a tense moment.

The situation is tense across the country and also online.

Millions of Bangladeshis are going through tense days and nights.

The relationship between Finland and the Soviet Union was tense.

Despite these improvements, the situation remains tense in many places.

The situation in North and South Kivu remains very tense.

Since then, the Shab'a farms area has been tense but quiet.

It's around midnight in Cairo. Evan Hill ( evanchill) tweets Atmosphere is tense .

That's simple, the goddess of goats, very simple.

Relations between the United States and Iraq remained tense following the Gulf War.

9. Simple distributed majority vote means a vote requiring more than half of the votes cast by producer members present and voting and more than half of the votes cast by consumer members present and voting, counted separately

All federations have experienced periods of tense relations between the federal and state governments.

In many tense situations, one does not need Blue Helmets one needs effective policing.

The situation along the Blue Line was tense but stable during the reporting period.

Voters were able to exercise their franchise freely, despite a tense pre election period.

They were more often in moods that they described as hostile, angry, anxious, and tense.

The delay has contributed to a tense situation in this vital area of the country.

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If and when all efforts to reach consensus have been exhausted, decisions of the Committee shall be taken by a simple majority of the members present and voting.

But when it comes down to me, right now, to all the beliefs I hold, here in the present tense, suddenly all of this abstract appreciation of fallibility goes out the window and I can't actually think of anything I'm wrong about.

It will be prolonged and occasionally very tense, but eventually result in appreciation of the renminbi.

The Kremlin s handling of the affair is indicative of the tense state of US Russia relations.

Ever since I left Romania for exile in 1986, my returns have been rare and tense.

An historical ending to a tense electoral period took place in Senegal on March 25, 2012.

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It's very simple.

But how simple?

It works best by acting calm and at ease when your enemy expects you to be tense.

Hosting a radio program broadcast on Radio Maria, the Vatican s radio channel, professor De Mattei commented on the earthquake and tsunami quoting (in the present tense) words that an Archbishop of a small town in southern Italy said at the beginning of the 20th century.

For example, if haxored is the past tense of the verb to hack (hack haxor haxored), then winzored would be easily understood to be the past tense conjugation of to win, even if the reader had not seen that particular word before.

And what that means simple and understandable might not be actually simple or understandable, and things we think are complex might be made simple and understandable.

The situation has become quite tense, with talk of currency wars and a real risk of financial protectionism.

The tense relationship between the incumbent Arab regimes and political Islam is not necessarily a zero sum game.

The tense situation in the republic led to the cancellation of the election results by the Supreme Court.

The political atmosphere during the campaign for the presidential run off election was generally peaceful, but somewhat tense.

The tense situation within Geneina itself warranted a reduction of non essential United Nations personnel on 12 October.

It's actually surprisingly simple.