1.   Also expected to curb enthusiasm for stocks is concern that tensions could escalate between China and Taiwan.

2.   And now we are back at arming both sides while tensions escalate once again.

3.   As racial tensions escalated, Myrlie Evers sometimes begged her husband to move the family to a safer place.

4.   As the election gets closer, tension has escalated between reformists and hard-liners.

5.   Both advocates and critics of affirmative action said they regret that tensions probably will escalate as a result of their confrontation.

6.   Both actors play their roles so trickily that tensions escalate until the horror grows unimaginatively gothic.

7.   But a U.S. missile attack on Iraq, if tensions escalate to that level, could provide a clue.

8.   But on Wednesday, tensions escalated between Taiwan and China.

9.   But other Republicans say they could see McCain running as an independent, especially if tensions between him and the White House escalate.

10.   Civil rights struggles were under way, and racial tensions were escalating.