High Tensions In the Low Countries

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

However, there are many regions of the world in which tensions run high, and which need nuclear weapon free zones, particularly the Middle East region.

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

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

Tensions remain high especially in north eastern Katanga, where several clashes have occurred between FARDC units and Mayi Mayi groups.

Tensions are also running high in the East China Sea, where the two countries dispute sovereignty over a number of islands. China is exploring gas fields close to the border as defined by Japan.

Since tensions and the prospect of renewed fighting remain high, a thorough assessment of the impact on civilians has not yet been possible.

Tensions remain high in the independence minded region a year after the October 1 referendum deemed illegal by Madrid but celebrated by separatist Catalans.

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

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.

Continuing geopolitical tensions combined with refining and distribution industry bottlenecks caused tight supply conditions for light products, which were coupled with high oil demand throughout 2004.

The Iranian government fears that electricity shortages, slow economic growth, and high unemployment will turn the populace against it. As social tensions increase, political turmoil will follow.

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

As tensions are running high, it is necessary that both parties do their utmost to curb attacks and counterattacks, including extrajudicial killings, in order to prevent a return to the vicious circle of violence that has beset the region for so long.

Tensions will arise from such interactions.

The host, Chávez s successor Nicolás Maduro, confronts a collapsing economy and tensions within his own party. Despite relatively high oil prices, Venezuela has a large fiscal deficit and falling foreign exchange reserves.

The veto in high politics would include any issues that touch on national security or sensitive foreign policy, most importantly the relationship with Israel. With an Islamist majority in the parliament promising to revise the peace agreement with Israel, tensions over foreign policy are likely to rise.

China and Japan seem to be taking steps toward better relations, after a period of high tensions. Even Russia has recently tilted toward China, establishing stronger connections on many fronts, including energy and transport.

Under the system, junior personnel, selected on the basis of ethnic or political affiliation, were appointed to senior positions of authority over high ranking civil servants, and this created tensions in the Civil Service.

Tensions and conflicts within and among States, which are detrimental to development and productivity, continue to affect many parts of the world.

We want to neutralize the tensions. We want closeness.

Tensions between the two countries were already high. But then fans of the Honduras team were set upon, and even worse, the Honduran national anthem was insulted, and the country s white and blue flag defiled.

All those threats have become subjects of major concern for people, and are joined by unresolved conflicts, regional tensions and ongoing internal upheavals.

And these are high school kids teaching high school kids.

Concerns that current pension and social security schemes are not sustainable in the long term are prevalent and, in some instances, create tensions concerning resource allocation and service provision.

A split within the Jumbesh organization has increased factional tensions.

Furthermore, with regional tensions high, the economic impact of the removal of sanctions turns out to be negligible, while conservatives gain ground in resisting reform. Rouhani and his allies are unable to offer ordinary Iranians economic hope a failure that causes them to lose both the legislative and presidential elections.

The stakes are high.

I believe that there are new, hidden tensions that are actually happening between people and institutions institutions that are the institutions that people inhabit in their daily life schools, hospitals, workplaces, factories, offices, etc.

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

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

And there are others who are extremely high.

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.

They are high school students.

In which are high thrones.

In which are high thrones.

Therein are thrones raised high,

Therein are thrones raised high,

The world's expectations are high.

Regional security and political tensions have also affected the economy of the Syrian Arab Republic at a time when its oil production and exports are declining.

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

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

The excitement is not anxiety free, however, and rightly so. Investors worry about the longer term consequences of political dysfunction, another year of European economic contraction, disastrously high unemployment, unprecedented and thus untested central bank policies, and increasing global tensions.