51.   By the time they sat down to eat, much of the tension between them had eased.

52.   Once again the tension between accountability and the desire to make the appraisal a valuable exercise created a dilemma.

53.   Some of its members had moved in left-wing circles before the war and there was tension between them and the permanent civil servants.

54.   It is sometimes said that in the light of the historical tension between Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad, things could hardly have been expected to turn out otherwise.

55.   Tensions between local and national governments are the political expression of ontological insecurity and the attempt to gain a degree of self-determination.

56.   This tension between economic arithmetic and the prescriptions of economic theory shows up in the discussion that follows.

57.   The reports illustrate the tensions between clinical medicine and public health in the formulation of health policy.

58.   Culture flourished on the tension between a perception of the unique reality of individual beings and the corporate structures to which they belonged.

59.   There were also religious differences between Catholics and Protestants, as well as tensions between English, Scottish and Irish factions.

60.   This is an anarchy in which the tension between surveillance and empowerment will make and break individuals and social and economic organizations in rapid succession.