21.   Murphy led the force during a time of tense relations with civil rights groups.

22.   Police officials say the government has not let on just how tense relations are, and how close to a clash the two have come on occasion.

23.   Rebels sacked border posts along the Macedonian border, a neighbor that has tense relations with its Albanian minority.

24.   Recent developments that have led to a worsening of the tense relations between India and Pakistan have also played a role.

25.   President Eduardo Frei of Chile overhauled his Cabinet and announced an economic stimulus package Monday night in response to rising unemployment and increasingly tense relations with the military.

26.   Taiwan stocks gained, led by financial shares such as Cathay Life Insurance Co., on hopes tense relations with China are over.

27.   Tense relations with China, an economy slowing into recession and a series of financial crises have been cited as the reason for the decline this year.

28.   The case threatened briefly to become an added strain on the already tense relations between the United States and Russia.

29.   The inroads Protestants have achieved in the region have created tense relations with the Catholic church.

30.   The new venture also helped ease, at least for a day, the tense relations that currently exist between Boeing and its two largest unions.