Yes, financial markets in troubled countries for example, Russia s currency, equity, and bond markets have been negatively affected. But the more generalized contagion to global financial markets that geopolitical tensions typically engender has failed to materialize.

High Tensions In the Low Countries

Tensions will arise from such interactions.

We want to neutralize the tensions. We want closeness.

A split within the Jumbesh organization has increased factional tensions.

Tensions in financial markets have hit new highs. Most telling is that Britain, which retained control of its currency, enjoys the lowest yields in its history, while the risk premium on Spanish bonds is at a new high.

Those arms fuel underlying tensions, exacerbate conflicts and hamper peacebuilding efforts.

The Governor's return has contributed to tensions within the local administration.

You begin to look at things having to do with your tensions.

Tensions between the 200,000 Sudanese refugees and Chadian host communities remain high.

What tensions and pressures would be created during the inevitable subsequent steps?

The alternative is further financial repression and, with it, low investment, rising economic and social tensions, and the emergence of a generation of impoverished pensioners. Like Monty Python s city terrorizing Hell s Grannies, tomorrow s elderly will surely make their voices heard.

In that case, Greece s geopolitical position would be weakened, its economy would sink further into recession, and social tensions would rise. Moreover, instability would become chronic, because the eurozone would no longer offer a backstop for fiscal and financial laxity.

Will there be tensions over immigration, or conflicts over competition for limited resources?

If not carefully managed, it can also provoke acute social and political tensions.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, tensions are either escalating or are brewing dangerously.

Many commentators, indeed, were stunned by the rapidity with which tensions returned to the international system. While many blame US behavior, these tensions have in fact been fueled by the unfolding of a new logic in international politics.

This is producing all sorts of tensions, all sorts of dynamics that are deeply disturbing.

The ambiguous nature of education in indigenous communities continues to generate tensions and conflict today.

In southern Katanga, there is concern that ethnic tensions may intensify during the electoral process.

Ethnic and inter communal tensions are exacerbated by media campaigns against segments of the population.

Those areas are also prone to environmental degradation and tensions between host communities and newcomers.

Fortunately, there are ways to ensure that 2015 s divergences do not lead to economic and financial disruptions. Indeed, most governments particularly in Europe, Japan, and the US have the tools they need to defuse the rising tensions and, in the process, unleash their economies productive potential.

Because most people s incomes are stagnant and being eroded as their mortgage payments rise, consumption is bound to fall, yielding lower growth and employment. A recession will only increase job precariousness and unemployment, creating social tensions that will not, of course, help to ease the financial crisis.

A series of incidents last week escalated tensions along the Blue Line to an alarming degree.

As in Ituri, the repercussions of these tensions had their greatest impact on the civilian population.

It led to a significant increase in tensions, with the Forces nouvelles reinforcing their defensive positions.

Therefore, we urge the parties to implement the measures necessary to prevent any further escalation of tensions.

Each time that tensions had begun to lessen, however, the two parties would again spiral into violence.

In North Kivu, although the ceasefire between opposing FARDC units around Kanyabayonga has held, tensions remained high.

In addition, the recruitment of nationals from the region might contribute to socio political tensions between States.

We were very alarmed to hear of the acute flare up of tensions in the Gaza area.

he did not ask Russia to avoid aggravating tensions between the United States and Russia through Kislyak, either.

And these tensions have deep evolutionary roots, so selfish behavior is adaptive in certain circumstances fight or flight.

Finally, the tensions and the contradictions within the international political system cry out for reconciliation, if not resolution.

However, tensions are now arising among a certain fringe sector of the local population of the host countries.

During the electoral process, UNOGBIS used its good offices, often in tandem with ECOWAS, to help calm tensions.

The economies of the ESCWA member countries grow largely from without , driven by commodity prices and political tensions.

The building of new Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory only further exacerbated tensions between the two peoples.

The balance between judicial activism and judicial deference will alter over time and between countries, and tensions can arise.

This decision aggravated the social and political tensions in the country, and the crisis spread to the main institutions.

Exacerbating existing tensions, they can result in support for extremists or encourage patterns of voting that reflect wartime allegiances.

Nevertheless, tensions still existing in some parts of the continent continued to trigger flows of refugees and displaced persons.

However, tensions have risen noticeably in the Abidjan area with eruptions of public disorder involving the Young Patriots movement.

The contraction of private investment in Europe accounts for only a small part (one third) of the growth gap. Though the financial market tensions that accompanied the euro crisis had a strong negative impact on investment in the eurozone periphery, investment demand has also remained weak in the US, minimizing the overall difference.