111.   The retail industry has been buffeted by unseasonably warm temperatures, stock market gyrations, and political tensions, which has dampened some spending.

112.   The selection paves the way for Berlusconi to form a cabinet, but also illustrates the political tensions simmering within his center-right coalition.

113.   The real estate market has been hurt by a glut of available buildings and homes and rising political tension between Taiwan and China.

114.   The United States had exported chicken to Russia in the past, but those exports were eroded by political tensions and by subsidized exports from Western Europe and Brazil.

115.   The yawning, age-old income gap is getting worse, creating political tensions and slowing development.

116.   There has been historic political tension between isolationalists and internationalists.

117.   These positions, inevitably, have steadily inflamed political tensions between big labor and the Republicans.

118.   This possibility has already created political tensions here.

119.   They will gain if the new parliament in Edinburgh eases the political tensions created by an alienated Scotland.

120.   To be sure, the acceleration of market-oriented changes has increased political tension.