Sentences with phrase «of tense times»

«I have a lot of memories in this room, a lot of good memories, a lot of tense times.»

Against a backdrop of tense times among police, protesters and elected officials, Cuomo is weighing a controversial bill that would alter disciplinary procedures for cops.

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China's Ministry of Commerce was set to hold a media briefing Friday morning New York time on the increasingly tense trade dispute with the U.S.

The video underscored the longtime tense relations between Chicago residents and police, but it was the timing of its release that drew protestors into the street.

Either our time away flew by, or we somehow manage to feel just as tense at the end of the break as we did at the beginning.

A good deal of persuasion depends on establishing trust over time, but the kind that takes place in an instant — defusing a tense situation, or changing somebody's mind — is particularly powerful.

It's a tense time for U.S. farmers, who could be in for rocky times as the U.S. and China heat up talks of tariffs.

The religious leaders of the gospel are any of us, in any time, who believe that God's activity is all past tense, or who believe that the Spirit has nothing new to renew in us.

A quick survey of present tense verbs in the Bible reveals that there are countless actions in the present tense which are clearly one time events with ongoing consequences.

We could go on and provide numerous similar examples, not just from the writings of John, but from other New Testament authors as well, but we have seen from just a couple of examples that present participles in connection with perfect tense verbs do not clearly indicate anything about the timing of one compared to the other.

... What is the most tense part — put your hand on that and let go of the tension... Be aware of all your feelings in the present moment... Breathe deeply a few times... Now picture the space of your consciousness as a room.

is a good example of the perfect tense used in this sense, namely «It [the atonement] has been accomplished, completely, once and for all time.»

Now restrains» that is what we call the present tense which means that the clear statement of scripture is that both the man of iniquity and the restrainer were present at the time of Paul's writing.

Thus, J. R. Lucas points out that such a criterion for time involves not only technical tense - logical difficulties, 7 but also involves a denial of the basic intuition that time is a concomitant of consciousness — we are aware of time even in the most tranquil of environments (TTS 13).

In the one the hot blood has grown cool, in the other it has become quite cold; and although I have spoken of them in the past tense, as if they were merely historic, yet Stoicism and Epicureanism will probably be to all time typical attitudes, marking a certain definite stage accomplished in the evolution of the world - sick soul.

Some Native American languages fail to distinguish clearly between past, present, and future verb tenses and thus the linear progression of time may be more difficult to experience in these cultures.

The optative of wishing occurs thirty - five times in the New Testament; one of its attested times is in Luke 1:38, as marked by Burton's Syntax of Moods and Tenses of the New Testament (1900), one of the foremost reference authorities on New Testament Greek.

Of course emotions were tense and at times tears flowed.

Because of motion, lapse of time, mobility of the angle of vision, and the intimacy of the close - up, the viewer has a sense of presence that is much more tense than in any other art form.

The early part of the decade was a tense time, with Senator McCarthy making his reckless charges and the nation on edge after a war in Korea against communist North Korea and the People's Republic of China (often termed Red China, even in the Century, for most of the decade).

The idea of the tense of timelessness (or the time of tenselessness, or the time of tenselessness) was first recognized by apparently both Peirce and Frege.

Here is an important point, of which Hartshorne is perhaps fully aware: however we develop the theory of tense, some timeless forms must be admitted anyhow, if only to handle mathematical principles, sentences containing only quantified time - parameters, and the like.

Besides the visit being her first real introduction to the Coca - Cola system, it will be a test of how she will navigate her way through the anchor bottler's complicated — and at times tense — relationship with its major shareholder.

I spent much of the time frustrated and tense, trying to get all the stitches to line up exactly.

When you add to that the driver's «promise» of giving back the place if they're unsuccessful, and the uncertainty over whether or not that will actually happen, it's definitely a tense time.

It was a tense affair at the Emirates at times, with the referee being the subject of much of the shouting.

So tense that during a frantic scramble in front of goal, Lucas Vazquez earned a very, very soft penalty in the final seconds of stoppage time, and Gianluigi Buffon was sent off with a straight red card for the ferocity of his protests, continuously bumping and manhandling English referee Michael Oliver while screaming at him.

Giunluigi Buffon came up huge a couple of times to keep Real Madrid off the scoreboard as the hosts worked to try and salvage the match, but Juventus were regularly dangerous on the counter-attack as well, leading to an incredibly tense last few minutes of regulation.

The only Arsenal fan with a twisted mind is yourself and others like you, loyalty to a club is old news and past tense, exactly why Clichy and Nasri left for Citeh, it, s the weekly pay cheque that makes the difference, if Chelsea, Ci teh or Real Madrid offer van Persie a better weekly wage so be it as his manager Arsene Wenger has shown he can not take the club any further than a mediocre 3rd place and only one point ahead of Spuds, football in 2012 is big bu siness, get with the times or go away mister, your child ish unalytical mind won, t pay Robin, s monthly bils etc..?

My mom once admitted she was about to run away and leave us behind at a very tense time of our family life.

Every time I went to breastfeed, I began to tense up from the anticipated pain of her mouth clamping down harder than usual onto my breast.

Of course, the first time eating out with baby may be a tense experience — and you may need to...

A crisis pregnancy can be a tense time and, of course, is nothing to laugh about.

Back in the «40s, one of the all - time greats of baseball, Dizzy Dean, used «slud «for the past tense of «slide.

They were tense times, and we would await the sales figures with a certain amount of anxiety.

The more oxygen you get, the less tense, short of breath, and anxious you feel.So the next time you feel stressed, take a minute to slow down and breathe deeply:

Also, I was pretty anxious and tense, and I had a hard time letting go of him, even to sleep.

The first time I nursed in front of family, who weren't my husband or sister, I was totally tense.

After many political schemes to get the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia North in the Ashanti Region, Collins Owusu Amankwah, out of his current position, he has won the Constituency primaries for the second time in a tense competition.

«Whilst negotiations have been protracted and at times tense, we are pleased that a settlement has been reached that will provide our Jersey members with conditions of service more in line with their UK counterparts and recognise their commitment to provide a first class education service.»

This has resulted in stand - offs and fights on a number of hills, and in the deterioration in community relations at an already tense time (Since then the CNTB has been suspended, and Bambonanire sacked).

When situations have grown tense, the massed ranks of riot police grow and await the slightest reason to employ force, unleashing batons on fans who might well just be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

As my colleague Zeeshan Aleem writes, although the Obama administration gave Israel a bigger military aid package than any US president in history, and has vetoed past UN condemnations of settlements, Obama had a «tense and at times outright hostile relationship with the right - wing Netanyahu.»

Cuomo in January projected a $ 2 billion surplus by 2016 - 17 — he spoke of achieving this surplus in the present tense — as well as surpluses in coming budget years, as long as the state sticks to a 2 percent cap on spending increases during that time.

This was as close as police came to resorting to the weapon, but even the wording of the article hints at the tense atmosphere of the time.

The comment came in response to a New York Times story Loeb shared that reported a tense exchange between Cuomo and Stewart - Cousins last month in which she accused the governor of not seeing as anything but a black woman.

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.

That timeline, which jolted days of tense waiting with a sudden flurry of activity, left little time to digest the main points before lawmakers were corralled for votes.

For a tense stretch of time, it looked like James Thompson, running on a progressive platform that hewed closely to that of Sanders, might just pull off an upset in the heart of Koch Industries country.

The images chosen elicit memories of a tense and difficult time in the City's history but as you know, New York is the safest big city in the world.