Tensions between the two countries were already high.

There is also the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, as well as strains between Israel and Turkey.

Tensions are on the rise.

Tension between the president and the Supreme Leader is built into the Islamic Republic s core.

But forming a coalition government is unlikely to ease the tension between Hamas and Fatah.

Tension between Japan and China which claims the islands immediately soared.

And regional tensions are running high.

Cold war tension has mounted.

From Beirut to Paris, the terrorists attacks are a deliberate effort to exacerbate tensions between communities.

High Tensions In the Low Countries

Tensions between China and its neighbors have escalated in the South China Sea, and between China and Japan in the East China Sea.

While European police forces place prevention at the top of their agendas, France has chosen to treat it as a marginal goal. As a result, tensions between the police, who are increasingly perceived as outsiders, and residents have grown to all time highs.

Moreover, Hamas has announced plans to recruit 1,500 additional security personnel for the West Bank, Fatah s stronghold. In recent weeks, the two sides have clashed frequently across the Gaza strip, heightening tensions further.

Tenth, any US unilateral military strike against Syria would ratchet up tensions between the US and Russia.

Second, there is an underlying historical tension between the large Sunni majority and the Alevi Bektashi minority, loosely linked to Shia Islam.

As a result, tensions between the police, who are increasingly perceived as outsiders, and residents have grown to all time highs.

In recent weeks, the two sides have clashed frequently across the Gaza strip, heightening tensions further.

Indeed, it is already creating tensions.

That tension leads to imperfect compromises.

They understand the tension between the different values involved in an issue, and how to balance the desirable with the feasible.

So technology is heightening the tensions that exist between the mechanics of a modern free society and the sense of a vast conspiracy against Muslims.

Nowhere has this phenomenon been stronger than in Turkey, where those military escapades have strained the two countries strategic alliance almost to the breaking point.

The social tensions would be enormous.

Tensions in financial markets have hit new highs.

Nonetheless, tension is simmering beneath the surface.

In particular, tensions have grown between the Malay majority and the country s large Chinese minority, which has been quicker to benefit from Malaysia s economic opening to the world.

Six people were killed a reminder of what can happen if violent polarization continues between neighboring towns and villages.

Similarly, in World War II, Japan feared for the stability of its foreign supplies of oil and other natural resources. Will similar tensions arise between resource challenged China (where even water scarcity is a problem) and the West?

Will similar tensions arise between resource challenged China (where even water scarcity is a problem) and the West?

I hope that never changes the tension among ideas and rigorous debate are the fundamental requirements for a society to move forward.

Regional autonomy, moreover, has not pacified ethnic tensions.

At that point, tensions with Cambodia became inevitable.

Moreover, currency tensions will remain high.

Tensions among member states seem to be rising, perhaps because the problem differs so greatly across countries.

More than a year was wasted on this, causing, among other things, tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s government and the Obama administration.

Anti Japanese riots across China have heightened tensions in Asia.

In France, this intensity is particularly visible within Socialist ranks.

Soon, high interest rates strained the country's budget.

Tensions have been building, fueling violence and playing into the hands of people smugglers.

Tension, and at times open confrontation, between a modernizing elite and ordinary people regarding the nature, function, and design of the state undermined the very capacity to govern.

Furthermore, trade tensions could weaken political ties.

Iranian Turkish tensions reflect three larger realities. First, the Arab Spring, and especially the Syrian uprising, exposed the two sides underlying rivalry for influence in the Middle East and the Arab world.

Today s tensions are rooted in paralysis on global rebalancing.

Iranian Turkish tensions reflect three larger realities.

For a time, tensions between the two countries rose to the point that France announced the postponement of the Blaesheim talks, a regular exchange of views by French and German leaders on European issues that began in 2001.