Sentences with phrase «during tense»

I restrained myself during my tense conversation with her.

Similar to most Bluetooth headsets, the XTD can take calls from your smartphone, minimizing distraction during those tense firefights.

French police officer Lieutenant colonel Arnaud Beltrame died helping end a gunman's shooting spree by swapping himself for a hostage during the tense supermarket siege...

I thought it would be useful to write about my own experience that may help my colleagues during this tense time — my foray into the world of mindfulness.

If creditors are harassing you, the bankruptcy attorneys at Susan M. Williams LLC can help you obtain an automatic stay to provide relief during a tense financial situation.

During tense moments, the game will have all the button prompts shiver to try and falsify an added sense of pressure.

Another very strong point is the music, especially during tense battles.

Link has been given a flashy blue scarf, which is used more to help the player keep track of The Hero of Time during tense moment of outright swarms.

Stuck against the wall during a tense battle?

The remastered version of the game's guitar - rock - orchestra soundtrack is appropriately thunderous, to the point where I couldn't help banging my head to a guitar solo during a tense dogfight with an enemy ship.

Just remember that you can rip through the game in one long sitting of six hours or so and there are few unlockables to keep you returning for more unless you want to get every mask possible for the duo or really like playing rock, paper, scissors during a tense fire - fight.

However, when the cell phone is activated, you get constant static over your screen that increases when running, which is understandable, but it still may prove to be irritating during tense scenes of aversion and dodging.

Now, with Zero Time Dilemma (and the Zero Escape series as a whole) being all about the shocks and twists that get thrown your way during the tense and thrilling ride that is the game's plot, I think it will be best to say here that you can be assured that this review will contain no spoilers — it would be cruel for me to ruin any of the game, it really is an experience that you need to go into without any idea of what to expect.

This sequel to 2014's Wolfenstein: The New Order appeared during a tense time in US politics, promoted and released while racism and white nationalism were at the forefront of Americans» minds.

You can even hack into the city itself, changing traffic lights from red to green during a tense chase.

In many ways this Russian transplant was the leading American authority on Alaska of his day, a prominent position he held until he was discredited in a most public and humiliating manor during tense international negotiations.

By means of interviews, diaries and letters from the arsonist during his years of imprisonment, Heivoll gradually constructs a model of what might have happened during those tense weeks, when residents sat silently on their doorsteps all night hoping to catch the arsonist — described only as tall, thin and probably young by one victim, who glimpsed him through the smoke engulfing her kitchen.

Friction with the Sacramento City Teachers Association started early, during tense negotiations in response to state - forced budget cuts, over higher class sizes, furlough days, pay cuts and hundreds of preliminary layoff notices.

During a tense phone call with a student's parent, I reminded myself to slow down, take a deep breath, and say out loud to her: «It might not feel like it while we're having this conversation, but I really care about your daughter and think she's funny, brilliant and so capable.

During storming, stay positive during tense moments and be ready to promptly address conflicts.

During his tense, brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of Marie's relationship with her teenage daughter Lucie (Pauline Burlet) and his efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a secret from their past.

Language also flares during tense moments, including an occasion when Darlene vulgarly asks Alice if she had sex with Nick.

While this would usually be a good thing, the thrills and tension are undermined when the characters play up comedic elements during a tense scene with sit - com level of performances and subtlety.

Impressively, he had the presence of mind to keep filming during tense standoffs and full - blown firefights.

During a tense car chase — one that makes great use of the chaos and congestion of streets in India — Marie gets shot in the head.

Family viewers expecting a wilderness endurance test won't be surprised by the sense of peril evoked by the cliffhanger plot nor the few profanities (plus one sexual expletive) that escape during tense times.

Uncertain who he can trust and ultimately forced to fight a handful of men solo, Gary's plight echoes the climax of «High Noon,» and similarly carves an effective political metaphor out of its one - man - army scenario: Literally bringing a knife to a gun fight during the tense showdown set around the exteriors of an apartment building, Gary becomes a killing machine by virtue of the only option at his disposal.

And if you experience stress and anxiety behind the wheel, you can add a drop of calming lavender, ylang - ylang, or bergamot to a clothespin and place it on your air vents to ease your nerves during a tense commute.

Cortisone, the «stress» hormone, is released during tense and stressful situations.

She began a scrapbook during a tense time with her 14 - year - old daughter.

According to the study, stories in these materials, in addition to the services provided during the Head Start school year, helped children to develop their social skills and learn how to calm down during tense moments, so they could overcome frustration and resolve conflicts.

The new initiatives were approved during tense negotiations at CMS's annual conference, held in Quito from 3 to 9 November.

In the meantime, Wright looks to the framed dollar bill above her desk signed by Rich Puchalski — executive director of Syracuse United Neighbors — who, during a tense Common Council meeting, pulled out a dollar declaring, «If you don't want to fund the Land Bank, we'll have to do it ourselves.»

He first won his seat back in 2008 during a tense, three - way battle for a board seat waged among three write - ins.

But the prime minister indicated it might be held sooner during a tense meeting of the parliamentary Labour party last week where he faced calls for his resignation after a week of cabinet resignations and the European election drubbing.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D - Bronx) asked Democrats at one point in the past few weeks to stop bashing the governor during tense budget talks.

I even resent the big chunk of time Shelly Silver takes off during tense budget negotiations so he can go lounge around in a posh hotel and «observe» whatever the hell it is he observes.

August 14: Mayor de Blasio caught flak for working out for at least 80 minutes in the Park Slope Y during a tense standoff in Staten Island between a gang leader and the NYPD that ultimately led to the suspect's death.

During tense negotiations over the bonds late last year, the city said the state threatened to zero out the fall funding entirely — a charge the governor's officials insisted was untrue.

Fed - up Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said yesterday he demanded that disgraced Brooklyn pol Vito Lopez resign during a tense face - to - face meeting several days ago.

Thousands of supporters gathered Saturday to finally celebrate the inauguration of Gambian President Adama Barrow, a month after he was sworn in across the border in neighbouring Senegal during a tense power struggle.

During a tense prime minister's questions, the Tory leader said Mr Brown could no longer claim to be above spin and people were now asking whether he was up for the job.

An annual professional golf tournament near Binghamton became an unlikely flashpoint today during a tense debate in the state Senate over a portion of the state's $ 168.5 billion budget plan.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was scheduled today to announce a $ 1 million grant from Google.org, the internet giant's philanthropic wing, to The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, to start a project preserving the oral histories and human experiences of the people who stood up and fought back during those tense days in 1969.

For me, my thoughts turn quickly into action, so I've learned to pay attention to what I tell myself during tense parenting moments, especially when I'm in public.

The puck was pinned against the sideboards in Detroit's Olympia Stadium during a tense game last week and three determined hockey players were jostling and scuffling with each other to free it.

Had I come of age during the great crisis of 1914 — 1945, or even during the tense, early decades of the Cold War, it's likely I, too, would have sought to defuse the consolidated energies of sovereign peoples, which is what the founders of what became the European Union did in the years after the war.

Even knowing where this story ends, by using hand close - ups during tenser moments and making more intimate shot choices overall, Affleck puts you in the mix right alongside the six, letting you feel the revolutionaries bear down on you, too.

Not exact matches

During the 2015 election campaign top Conservative officials exchanged tense emails about whether to drop the MP over a sexual assault allegation

Yet for the next several years, through my baptism, my church wedding (yes, to the Christian who gives gifts of underwear), through my continued efforts to write poetry, and even during my first bout of seminary education, I went about my life tense with the secret that I did not know how to pray as I ought.