Sentences with phrase «of tension in the air»

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MOSCOW (Reuters)- Russia deployed a new division of S - 400 surface - to - air missiles in Crimea on Saturday, Russian news agencies reported, in an escalation of military tensions on the Crimean peninsula.

«The water vapor in the air was at its maximal state of tension... It was a fine day in August 1913.»

US Air Force aircraft in Japan and South Korea have also taken part in numerous shows of force and exercises in recent months, amid ongoing tensions with North Korea.

But there is little or no discussion in Unions Matter of current intergenerational tensions in the union movement: the movement toward two - tier workplaces, like Air Canada's Rouge Airlines, which aims to hire new, mostly younger workers at a lower pay scale and with fewer benefits than are enjoyed by older, established workers.

In the midst of Cold War tensions, Soviet fighter jets shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, killing all 269 passengers aboard.

Tension was in the air as a good deal of back - room discussion took place.

The most observable example of transatlantic tensions in the field of security was perhaps the valedictory speech of Defence Secretary Robert Gates given in Brussels at the midst of the Libyan air campaign in June 2011.

The possibility of a war is always in the air, and this results in a palpable tension throughout the region (pp. 3 — 4).

Drought actually puts the trees» water transport systems under a huge amount of tension, he says, causing air bubbles to leak in, which damages or blocks those pipes.

In order to make the transition from air to water, the team first had to solve the problem of surface tension.

Minuscule scales on their surfaces cause some to lock together and tiny pockets of air get trapped between others, while natural lubricating oils engulf them all in a sticky surface tension.

Tension in and around your rib cage or diaphragm — the primary breathing muscle — constricts your lungs and limits the amount of air you can bring in.

You might feel the room is hot, «feel» the tension in the air and see the disorder of the space without even knowing there was an argument before you entered.

When your feet are in the air, you're less stable and less able to produce the required tension and force, which defeats the purpose of lifting in the first place.

While maintaining the tension in your trunk, push the ball of your feet into the ground to raise your heels into the air.

This is a great pose to do if feeling scared; it relieves tension in the face, strengthens the throat muscles and clears the air of any unwanted energy... like uninvited ghosts.

When we breathe, this dome - shaped muscle contracts allowing a reduced pressure in the upper body so that air may enter the lungs and provides tension across the top of the abdominal area.

When family and friends start to feel inadequate, it can bring about tension in the air as they begin to wonder why you choose to date outside your race instead of someone who is similar to you.

It's clearly one of the best shows on TV, and though I still enjoyed the season finale, the plot contrivance revealed all - too - neatly in the first 10 minutes or so of the finale really did take some air out of the balloon in terms of the tension that had been building for so many episodes.

Yet perhaps Bahranis greater achievement is to make the minutiae of property foreclosure no less compelling: a scene in which Garfield steals a vacated homes air conditioner has all the sweaty tension of a bank heist or drug raid.

Entebbe director José Padilha does good work in capturing the tension and ideological complexities of the Air France hijacking of 1976 — then throws it all away with a bewildering and indulgent final act

Each family member brings their own little past secret and armful of baggage into the Weston home and tensions begin to boil in the hot summer air.

The prevalence of police brutality toward unarmed black people is an unspoken terror that hangs in the air in those final moments — before Rod steps out of the car and crushes the tension.

But Clooney realized in the editing room that even though Brolin's scenes were «the funniest in the movie», they «let the air out of the balloon, in terms of tension in the film».

PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE (1944)-- Bogart reunites with director Michael Curtiz and other key «Casablanca» talent for a tension - and controversy - swept story of a French patriot who escapes Devil's Island, survives a dangerous freighter voyage and becomes a gunner in the Free French Air Corps.

There was a general electricity and tension in the air, something like flying by the seat of your pants.

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Under study are knee cushions that deploy from under the dash in an impact and retract afterward to be used again, and a seat system in which the height, weight and gender of each occupant is fed into a computer to adjust the position of each seat, the tension of each safety belt and the inflation rate of each air bag.

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Simethecone works by breaking down the surface tensions of the small air bubbles in the stomach, thus causing bigger bubbles to form, which theoretically, are easier for the stomach to pass.

Unfortunately the air of tension in the home that this creates may fuel your cat's anxiety.

You can feel the tension in the air as the Island Packers crew remind us that Orcas often use the noise of boat motors to surprise their prey.

I'd say it's not present to the same degree as FF8 or FFX, but there were loads of sexual tension in the air, even if Cloud was still at the «girls have cooties» stage of emotional development.

The protagonists of these works, derived from pictures in magazines or scientific books, are captured while engaging in activities whose exact nature seems both mundane and mysterious («they're just sitting there breathing,» Borremans told an interviewer), but the artist manages to freight these protagonists, and the air around them, with great emotional tension.

Ling's paintings of East London streets, for example, are painted en plein air, but on a bright orange ground that shows through gaps in the paint, producing an unsettling tension between the familiar subject matter and what lies beneath.

«The works in this series,» wrote Edward Bryant in an essay accompanying the artist's retrospective at The Whitney Museum in 1964, «are more tonal, with a dense saturation of long brushstrokes, more recessive and atmospheric, with an air of tension.

Instead of the booth being fully enclosed like a classic confessional, open - air windows cut into the design, creating a tension between yesterday's private practice of confessing in secret and today's more performative and secular version of confession.

Order and madness are held in tension, vaudevillian and nursery rhyme absurdity take on the air of paranormal ritual.

In the exhibition, visitors are encouraged to wind their way through and below a geometrically complex array of cords and reflective panels, forming a cloud of 10,000 nodes suspended in the air by tension and connected to the gallery walls, floor and ceilinIn the exhibition, visitors are encouraged to wind their way through and below a geometrically complex array of cords and reflective panels, forming a cloud of 10,000 nodes suspended in the air by tension and connected to the gallery walls, floor and ceilinin the air by tension and connected to the gallery walls, floor and ceiling.