Sentences with phrase «years of tension»

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It had not been possible to take a developmental history about the girl (who was not present for the first meeting) without her mother becoming intensely distressed as she recalled the years of tension and violence.

Shoshana, the custodial parent of four - year - old Becca, was in the early stages of a contentious separation from her husband, following years of tension in which their different parenting styles were a continual source of conflict.

After years of tension between district schools and charter schools, the IPS board made the smart and cooperative decision to lease a chunk of one of its schools to Enlace Academy, a Westside charter opening in August.

VanderBeek and his colleagues» findings come after years of tension between eye doctors and Avastin's maker Genentech over the drug's ophthalmic use.

Bob McCarthy: After almost three years of tension between the Peace Bridge Authority's Canadian and American delegations, the New Yorkers loyal to Cuomo may have now prevailed, thanks largely due to a change in command at the top in Canada.

The ongoing battle between Berahino and the club seems to have reached a ceasefire and, after almost two years of tension, the Baggies look set to relinquish their talented frontman.

If faith and reason are not distinct, then the past 500 years of tension between religion and science is a sham!

The photo op, celebrating a technological wonder built with the help of American dollars, came with considerable symbolism as Mr. Obama sought to showcase support for Israel after years of tensions over Jewish settlements and how to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.

This trip comes after more than a year of tension caused by Trump's comments about Mexicans, beginning with the infamous speech he made to announce his candidacy, saying that Mexico was «bringing their worst people» including rapists and crime - and drug - ridden people.

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Johnson's comments, to reporters on the margins of a two - day meeting of G7 ministers, underlined how tensions between Moscow and the West have increased steadily over recent years.

I think with the last accord, with the escalator [automatic year - over-year increase in transfer dollars] built in it really sort of dampened down the usual federal - provincial tensions, and for whatever reason it also then fell off the media and public horizon.

Adding to the tension, Anderson and Kadlic were determined to complete the sale by the end of the year.

But the proceedings in Beijing were kept firmly devoid of tensions as both sides worked on laying the groundwork for an expected meeting between Trump and Xi in the United States later this year.

«Iran and Saudi Arabia have had serious frictions in the past, but the last few years have seen a real increase in tension,» John Gay, executive director of the John Quincy Adams Society and coauthor of the book «War With Iran,» told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

His quick acceptance of the results eased tensions in the volatile nation where the latest presidential election, in 2013, narrowly won by Maduro, was bitterly disputed and where anti-government protests last year led to 43 deaths.

John Bolton, President Donald Trump's third national security advisor in just over a year, started his new job Monday and already he has his plate full of crises and global tensions to deal with.

CHICAGO, May 2 - Global grain marketers have seized upon trade tensions between the United States and several of its top export markets, including China, to turn around struggling trading units following one of the toughest years ever for the industry.

Although the southern European country has been growing above 1 percent in the past few years, unemployment levels are still over 11 percent and an inflow of immigrants has deepened social tensions.

Over the past year of election rhetoric, Islam has been a topic of tension and generalization.

We are already barely making ends meet,» says Daren Niemeyer, a 49 - year - old farmer in Nebraska who voted for Trump in 2016, when asked about his thoughts of the trade war tensions between China and the U.S..

U.S. forces in Syria have already faced direct threats from Syrian and Iranian - backed forces, leading to the shoot - down of Iranian drones and a Syrian jet last year, as well as to tensions with Russia.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's hryvnia has dropped nearly 80 percent against the greenback this year, to trade at 15,7085 per $ 1 on Monday, off last month's all - time low of 15,8817, weighed by tensions between government forces and rebels in the country's eastern regions.

A combination of rising inflation and interest rates, global trade tensions and emerging skepticism toward the tech sector pushed most asset classes into negative territory year - to - date.

The unified team for the Pyeongchang Olympics is a product of a landmark deal between the two rivals following a year of high tensions over the nuclear - armed North's weapons ambitions.

Two years later it was kicked out of Malaysia because of racial tension — the city state was mainly ethnic Chinese, the peninsula dominated by Malays — and the antagonism of many senior politicians in Kuala Lumpur toward Lee, whom they considered headstrong and unpredictable.

While antitrade winds are also blowing strong on the other side of the Atlantic — as the failed TTIP campaign shows — trade is likely to be a constant source of tension between Washington and some European capitals in the next four years.

What Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Get Wrong: 7 Lessons From the Rest of the Ecosystem I have felt a tension between Silicon Valley and other parts of the entrepreneurship ecosystem for many years.

Precious and Industrial Metals Inflation concerns, geopolitical tensions and interest - rate levels, especially real yields, contributed to a 1.7 % rise in the spot price of gold (to US$ 1,325 per troy ounce), as did swings in the US dollar.1 Gold prices traded within the US$ 1,305 — 1,360 range throughout the period, reached 18 - month highs in March and capped their third straight quarterly gain, a feat not seen since 2011.1 Haven demand was a key support as exchange - traded gold holdings of 2,269 metric tons (mt) neared a five - year high.1 The Fed is widely expected to boost borrowing costs, and investors have been carefully watching the central bank's statements to see whether it targets more rate increases in 2018 than previously projected.

The price of domestic crude climbing to a three - year high as tensions rise in the Middle East, feeding concerns over potential supply disruptions in the region.

Concerns about global trade tensions between China and the U.S. and the fear that the stellar earnings could be as good as it gets for stocks are all combining to undermine the sort of confidence that was in abundance during last year's run of repeated records for equity benchmarks, as the U.S. economy enters it ninth year of expansion and as the Federal Reserve moves to normalize monetary policy from crisis - era levels.

After months of missile and nuclear tests that raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Kim suddenly extended an olive branch, saying in his New Year's address on Jan. 1 that he would prepare for his country's participation in the Feb. 9 - 25 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics hosted by South Korea.

Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia triggered doubts about the success of the OPEC + oil production cut deal two years ago when it was first being hatched.

Beginning the year at around $ 997, bitcoin experienced abrupt volatility in the last quarter as the currency witnessed immense buying interest in the wake of escalating tensions in the Middle East and East Asia, pushing investors to look at the virtual currency from the perspective of an alternate asset class with barely any accountability.

Experts have warned that trade tensions are likely to rise this year between the U.S. and China, the world's two largest economies, as Trump decides how to act on a series of investigations his administration launched last year.

And Middle East tensions and talks of reimposing sanctions on Iran have helped oil prices to reach levels not seen in years.

Before late January injected a surge of volatility into equities, driven by investor fears over a handful of factors including rising rates, tightening monetary policy, more regulation on big tech and rising global trade tensions, investors were smooth sailing on the nine - year bull market.

When we were at the height of North Korean tension, 10 - year Treasuries were close to 2 % in yield.

Specifically, traders will watch the wording and distribution of opinions around hot topics like the impact of last year's tax cuts and simmering «trade war» tensions.

I can say quite honestly that I am entirely sure that had I come to Freedom a few years earlier, I would have been among those that would have been incapable of living in the tension that Frank talks about.

The decision comes at a time when racial tensions in the US are high after the Charleston massacre, arson attacks against several black - majority churches and several incidents of alleged white police brutality against unarmed black suspects in the past year.

From all reports, the Egypt meeting was a civil and gracious affair, in welcome contrast to the tension and acrimony of their last gathering two years ago in Tanzania.

I watched the tension flee from their faces as I described what amounted to the least common denominator of church involvement — the kind of behavior in God's people to which I had accommodated myself years earlier.

Today's young women do want to talk about the realities and tensions that have emerged from the feminist debates of recent years.

That said, Anderson is aware that the tensions around the sort of issues Black - ish deals with — like racism, sexism and bigotry — have grown tighter and become a larger part of the national spotlight in the four years since Black - ish premiered.

The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches, protests over attacks on Christians by Islamist extremists, and a law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from local majority groups before building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its religious groups.

And to do this let us begin by climbing up till we tower over the trees which now hide the forest from us; in other words let us forget for a moment the details of the economic crises, the political tensions, the class - struggles which block out our horizon, and let us climb high enough to gain an inclusive and impartial view of the whole process of hominization11 as it has advanced during the last fifty or sixty years.

While I no longer believe the earth is just 6,000 years old, I still live in the tension of unanswered questions about the universe, and death, and brains, and Neanderthals, and whatever Neil deGrasse Tyson's got to say on public television about the earth getting burned up by the sun or our species going extinct after an asteroid hits.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, for example, noted in its 2015 annual report the increase in reports of violence in India in recent years and observed that a «climate of impunity» against wrongdoers appeared to exist in a number of Indian states, «exacerbating the social and religious tensions among communities.»

Word of Benedict's resignation — the first for a sitting pope in nearly 600 years — reportedly stunned the world's Catholic faithful, many of whom believed the German - born pontiff still had years of stymieing female advancement in Church roles, opposing stem cell research, and inflaming tensions with Jews, Muslims, and Anglicans left in him.