Sentences with phrase «when international tensions»

At a time when international tensions and domestic frustrations had dampened traditional American optimism, the underdog U.S. Olympic hockey team gave the entire nation a lift by defeating the world's top team, the Soviets, and ultimately winning the gold medal.

Not exact matches

Tensions between the Portuguese international and the ex-Liverpool and Chelsea boss appeared to have reached boiling point when Ronaldo was captured on video reacting angrily during a training session, which came on the back of an awkward moment between the two just a week earlier.

When a state will not or can not protect its population, then the international community can act by helping to reduce tensions or militarily intervening to prevent atrocities.

More perniciously, international tensions have often driven a wedge between foreign and Iranian researchers, he says: «When I described my visit to Iran, some colleagues would seem to roll their eyes in a «why would you go there?»

One way to achieve this is to limit public appearances, especially during times of national or international tension when the number of potential assailants increases.

International tensions Raising money for the pipeline may pose a problem at a time when many governments around the world are imposing austerity measures.

As citizens all over the world are fully aware, tensions, conflicts, and wars are persisting, and national, regional, and international institutions are powerless, even when limiting their role to avoiding the permanent deterioration of people's living conditions and means of subsistence.

He continued through a decade of relative warlessness, at least in Western Europe and the U.S. (one of his books, Soldiers: The Nineties, chronicled the amorphous roles of men in uniform during this time), but endless technological revolutions (when he started, Tillmans used to promise collectors reprints of his digitally processed images should they fade, and they inevitably did; now, they rarely do), and through a subsequent decade of drawn - out international tensions (soldiers have definite jobs again).

This is always going to be the problem when someone discusses climate change as a component of any given example of international tensions - there is always another, more proximate cause that can be pointed to.

While Joan Biskupic at CNN, writes that Jesner is evidence of increasing tension between the liberal and conservative blocs on the Court, Walter Olson, at the Cato Institute, argues that the decision «[confirms] that is it up to Congress, not the judiciary, to decide whether and when American courts should entertain international human rights cases against foreign defendants.»

But when this concern is laid down as a trump card to end debate rather than something to be examined, say, in light of how this differs in significance or scale from tension faced by in - house counsel or by the member of a 4000 lawyer international firm, we are entering «won't somebody please think of the children» territory.