tension

Most organizations are like stretched rubber bands, snapping back immediately back to normal once the tension is gone.

Rising tensions between the United States and China, meanwhile, threatens trade between the world’s two largest economies.

Yes, cops are under stress and tension (though their jobs are far less dangerous than normally supposed).

But still the Middle East conflict does cause tension between many in these two communities.

“This tension was not well received at the Vatican,” according to Tosatti.

That's a step forward from the tension of the past two years.

The increasing tension between Obama's team and Bibi's reflects this basic divergence in interests.

The controlling leaders being out of gear the machine did not run smoothly: there was nothing but friction and tension.

It depends upon the fact that bile acids lower surface tension.

During so long drawn out a suspense I tried to ease the tension by dictation.

Thus the tension which serves to start the movement is intense, though the masses involved are not very great.

Throughout the country-side, wherever the echo of the wail was heard, a tension fell upon everything.