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

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

The second future could hardly be more different an Asia of increased tensions, rising military budgets, and slower economic growth. Such tensions could spill over and impede trade, tourism, and investment, especially if incidents occur between rival air or naval forces operating in close proximity over or around disputed waters and territories.

UNAMSIL is also helping the Government of Sierra Leone to resolve issues that have created tensions in communities, such as disputes over chiefdom boundaries.

High Tensions In the Low Countries

Tensions will arise from such interactions.

Faced with these domestic concerns, all three leaders need a respite from the tensions that have bedeviled relations among their countries over the past three years. But, because each has played on these tensions, particularly with Japan, in order to control their domestic opponents, achieving this necessary respite may prove difficult.

We want to neutralize the tensions. We want closeness.

A split within the Jumbesh organization has increased factional tensions.

Violence, displacement, human rights abuses, and poverty had clearly taken a huge toll. Sudan has been ravaged for decades by bitter conflicts rooted in abject poverty, struggles over resources, and ethnic and religious tensions.

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.

Internationalists had to come to terms with the simple fact that, on its own, trade did not automatically enable peace. Economic globalization had outpaced politics, creating new tensions over oil and other strategic resources.

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.

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

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

Territorial disputes have exacerbated these tensions significantly. China challenges Japanese control over more than seven square kilometers of islets called the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the Diaoyu Islands in China in the East China Sea.

The dramatic increase in the number of arms embargo violations during the current reporting period over that of the previous mandate period is in direct correlation to the increasingly hostile tensions between TFG and the opposition.

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?

Turkey benefits from republican reflexes and values that have been built over decades, as well as from humanist wisdom anchored in centuries of history. Yet, given the regional context, Turkey s internal tensions now represent a serious threat.

The security situation within the camps for internally displaced persons has improved substantially over the past year, with tensions much lower and the presence of AU civilian police cited by internally displaced persons as a reassuring factor.

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.

Civil society had been energized by the Maidan revolution that ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych, but it was in turmoil. Debate over the association agreement with the European Union, along with the Russian backed rebellion in the east, had stoked tensions over distinctions that previously played little or no role in people s lives.

Growing conflicts over history, territory, and maritime security, combined with an ugly resurgence of nationalism, risk triggering military confrontation, quite possibly through political miscalculation. Left unattended by policymakers and peacemakers, Northeast Asia s tensions could undermine the region s flourishing economy.

Banks are receiving ever larger bailouts, while countries that borrowed are cutting social programs and face rising social tensions and political instability as a result. Countries like Greece, Italy, and arguably Portugal over borrowed, and now their citizens face severe consequences.

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.

Tensions continued to mount through early 2014, raising concerns about an accidental war between China and Japan, which would demand the involvement of Japan s main ally, the US (as President Barack Obama confirmed on a visit to Tokyo last April). Add to that simultaneous tensions over China s claims to South China Sea islands and atolls claims disputed by the Philippines and Vietnam and a clash between China and the US was beginning to seem inevitable.

NEW DELHI Stoking tensions with Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines over islands in the South and East China Seas has not prevented an increasingly assertive China from opening yet another front by staging a military incursion across the disputed, forbidding Himalayan frontier.

Last year Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping committed to phase out hydrofluorcarbons, a potent greenhouse gas. In February, they announced their intention to work together on climate policy a marked contrast to Sino US tensions over Pacific security and trade issues.

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.

At the height of tensions, when China found the governments of Lee Teng hui and Chen Shui bian intolerable, it never ceased its policy of embracing the Taiwanese people and Taiwanese businessmen. Over time, this created a rich web of economic interdependence, which promotes stability.