Witness Washington's own attitude toward Cuba, especially during times of high tension with the Soviet Union.
The ramming-sinking on Saturday comes at a time of high tension on the Korean peninsula.
This is old school stealth - creeping around with high tension and high stakes.
It could also mean clearing of forest and blasting of mountainsides to rig high tension power lines in once-picturesque environments.
North Korea says it is cutting a military hotline with South Korea, amid high tension on the peninsula.
While the group normally focuses on making economic decisions, this meeting will be keenly watched given the current high tension.
His trip came at a time of high tension between Pyongyang and Washington and was not endorsed by the U.S. State Department.
Disbelief and resignation give way to high tension, the apprehension is palpable.
There is already high tension between U.S. and Europe over defence.
His visit comes at a time of high tension in the country following a deadly clash between U.S. troops and Iraqis at Fallujah, west of the Iraqi capital Tuesday.
It is a time of high tension in Lebanon, scene of several bombings this year, as a UN investigation team prepares to publish its findings into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Still, there's a sense of fatigue in the scenes that don't involve high-tensile webs and high-tension suspense.
Tea Petrovic's "Shoe prototypes" are high-tension architectural structures, cut and wired, that look like Calders for the foot.
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But their trunks took the brunt of the shock from the high-tension wire.
But the request to hold off the change comes after several high-tension days at NYSE and growing concerns among traders that the initiation of Reg NMS today will jam up communications among exchanges.
Whoever thought of appropriating the word for the ugly metal-lattice structures that carry high-tension power lines across the countryside was therefore guilty of both a public-relations triumph and an act of etymological vandalism.
Internationally, the DPRK maintains a high-tension position.
But by announcing Egypt's nuclear-power drive at a party conference, during a period of high regional tension over Iran's nuclear ambitions, the younger Mubarak was clearly staking out a more assertive role, both for himself and for Egypt.
The repeated Iranian claims about American drones, and the U.S. denials that have followed, reflect the continued high level of tension between Washington and Tehran.
It keeps the tension high ahead of the return leg with Bayern and maintains the state of permanent warfare under which Mourinho's teams tend to thrive.
Tension is high on the Korean peninsula following North Korea's third nuclear test on 12 February.
Tension remains high between the Buddhist Rakhine and minority Muslim Rohingya communities in the state.
Lastly, swear words are probably most often used when stress and tension is high.
An indefinite curfew has been imposed on the area since midnight, but tension remained high, police said.
Regional tension remains high after the North's third nuclear test last month.
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On Capitol Hill, the tension is high and the stakes are even higher, as Republicans and Democrats near the decisive moment of the health care battle.
Tension is high in Colombo, and delegates had to be brought to Parliament by helicopter for the debates, as the police did not want to risk bringing them by road convoy.
Tension was high during district elections in July - won by Mr Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front party - and the latest uprising is another indication that little has been done to heal the wounds inflicted on the country by years of regional and political conflict.
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