The situation seemed very tense and dangerous.

From the opening minutes, the game was very pugnacious.

These goals require hard work on the part of government and society.

It was a maquette of the tense political scene in the land of pharaohs.

SANTIAGO After a hard fought electoral battle, Chile has a new president.

The centre also said the situation in the de escalation zone remained tense.

Several weeks of passive, though tense, opposition resulted in talks with the administration and satisfaction of most part of the workers demands.

Sadly, given the conventional economic wisdom, implementing such measures will be an uphill struggle.

Clearly that match was going to be a very close thing.

They will still loathe poverty, embrace universal values, and find joy in hard work.

But gestures cannot be a substitute for real action, or for the hard work that is necessary to empower all Indian women.

And the authorities needed Plan B which was to attack and to fire up the already tense atmosphere.

The future then would be fraught with tension in a part of the world where the EU needs to encourage peace and stability.

It was not the first time that the Kremlin has sent Moscow riot police to stop demonstrations in Vladivostok, therefore the pre protest atmosphere was a bit tense.

Now is the time for China, the Philippines, Vietnam, other claimants, and the US to take action to begin to diminish these tensions. What is needed, above all, is a covenant among the leaders of the Asia Pacific region that will make peaceful dispute resolution binding on all stakeholders, big or small.

Now is the time for China, the Philippines, Vietnam, other claimants, and the US to take action to begin to diminish these tensions.

In this tense climate, the northern candidate, Alassane Ouattara, a Muslim and former senior official at the International Monetary Fund, was denied the right to run in the 2005 presidential election. The winner, the southerner Laurent Gbagbo, then refused to concede his defeat by Ouattara in 2010, leading to violent conflict and fear of a long and potentially genocidal civil war.

In this tense climate, the northern candidate, Alassane Ouattara, a Muslim and former senior official at the International Monetary Fund, was denied the right to run in the 2005 presidential election.

First elections, in particular, are almost inevitably of limited value as foundations of democracy, because they take place in an emotionally charged atmosphere and largely without substantive debate.

After several months of intense campaigning, people have grown restless with prolonged delays in holding the election, even more so as politicians blamed one another for the hold up.

Countries like China and Brazil, which have been successful in reducing malaria rates, could see their hard work undermined by an increase in resistance to antimalarial drugs.

Starting this fall, the UN SDSN will create a platform for all global citizens to participate in the hard work of saving the planet.

War talk is still close to the surface in Israel, and anxiety is mounting that, in the highly charged political climate of a US election year, escalation might not be containable.

One of the most heated debates in biology is that of nature versus nurture , concerning the relative importance of genetics and biology as compared to culture and environment in human behavior.

Ever since key public figures signed a manifesto in a French magazine denouncing the dangers of a monarchical drift without ever mentioning the president s name the political atmosphere in France has been electric.

For example, in a tense situation with an exchange of fire, false reports on whether Ukrainian units are surrounded and trying to escape, and if they have enough provision, might determine how other military units choose to act.

Russia s heavy handed pressure on Georgia and its support of secessionist movements in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two unrecognized republics within Georgia, inflames passions and risks destabilizing the already tense Northern Caucasus.