You look tense.

We go to meetings in the present tense we go on family vacations in the present tense we go to the polls and vote in the present tense.

Then things get tense.

He was tense with his new business.

The situation in the area remains tense.

It's getting more and more tense, he said.

In summary, the overall security situation remains tense.

It was characterized by a nation versus nation, very fragile standoff.

Recently, this area's international relations have become very tense.

Despite these improvements, the situation remains tense in many places.

The situation in North and South Kivu remains very tense.

And the thing is, the present tense is where we live.

Since then, the Shab'a farms area has been tense but quiet.

This is a tense moment in the first football game, I think.

This is where the Marines in the audience get kind of tense.

In many tense situations, one does not need Blue Helmets one needs effective policing.

The situation along the Blue Line was tense but stable during the reporting period.

Voters were able to exercise their franchise freely, despite a tense pre election period.

As a result of the standoff, a line in the sand has been drawn between the opposing sides.

The delay has contributed to a tense situation in this vital area of the country.

He was feeling constantly tense and nervous, had sleeping difficulties, poor appetite, loss of memory and nightmares.

Transcripts of his first call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull were also published revealing a tense exchange.

The political atmosphere during the campaign for the presidential run off election was generally peaceful, but somewhat tense.

The tense situation within Geneina itself warranted a reduction of non essential United Nations personnel on 12 October.

The political climate in the U.S. at the time was tense, and there were debates going on about immigration.

Richard Pyle When you start talking like Donald Duck, there's no situation in the world that can seem tense.

I hope that this or some other tense situation will not be used for provocation from some other side.

So it will be a very tense moment, you know, as we are watching that spacecraft landing on another planet.

By the time the funeral of Mr. Garang was held in Juba on 6 August, the tense atmosphere had dissipated somewhat.

A resurgent Taliban in its tribal areas has destabilized Pakistan. The recent carnage in Mumbai has prompted another standoff between nuclear armed India and Pakistan.

NEW YORK Last month s US government shutdown the result of a partisan standoff in congressional budget negotiations epitomizes the polarization that prevails in modern economic policy debates.

In southern Darfur, the security situation is very tense north, east and south of Nyala, with incidents of banditry occurring on a daily basis.

As noted above, the security situation in the UNMIS area of responsibility during the past three months remained tense, particularly in Sector I (Juba).

Negotiation and diplomacy are the only sure way to resolve the standoff with Iran over its nuclear program. Another conflict in the Middle East is the worst option.

German and European Union policymakers are calling his bluff. As a result, the two sides have become stuck in a passive aggressive standoff that has made serious negotiation impossible.

However, at the time of the preparation of the present report, the situation was a standoff, accompanied by a lot of harsh rhetoric, with a commensurate rise in tensions.

It feels very tense, said 35 year old mother Risa Kusuma, comforting her feverish baby boy at an evacuation centre in the gutted city of Palu.

Of course not. Hostility on the football pitch merely reflects the existing tense relations between the two countries, which carry the weight of a painful history.

Thus far, a standoff looks likely, as the head of the presidential election commission has stated publicly on Egyptian television that he refuses all citizen monitoring of the election process.

So you can imagine, if you are in the middle of a tense cabinet meeting and he had hundreds of these stories you would have to relax.

Relations between indigenous Ivorian ethnic groups and immigrant communities in many areas remain tense, notably in Duékoué and Guiglo and in and around the zone of confidence.

El Salvador shares the concern of the Transitional Government of Haiti about the deteriorating security situation, particularly in Port au Prince, and the resulting tense political climate.

Indeed, this was perhaps the Greek government s main achievement during its agonizing five month standoff with its creditors. After years of extend and pretend, today almost everyone agrees that debt restructuring is essential.

According to Russian media, given the tense situation recently, Crimea has strengthened security measures in important infrastructure facilities and heartlands while intensifying regulation of the border areas of Ukraine.

Cognition is about understanding the world, emotion is about interpreting it saying good, bad, safe, dangerous, and getting us ready to act, which is why the muscles tense or relax.