11.   China has called the criticism politically motivated, and an American vote against the project would inflame the already tense relations.

12.   Despite tense relations with the government, Biljman said the organization was able to keep running, perhaps because it was working with Serbs.

13.   Dostum, a former communist who fought alongside the Soviet Union, has often maintained tense relations with men like Muhammad, the commander who skipped the negotiations.

14.   Golden Sky and Pegasus have increasingly tense relations with DirecTV.

15.   If India follows suit, its neighbor, Pakistan, with which it has tense relations, may also test a nuclear weapon, government and civilian experts said.

16.   In Harris County, a new sheriff has brought at least a temporary truce to historically tense relations between the department and the Commissioners Court.

17.   In the south, it will reach almost to Sudan and Chad, a country with which Libya has tense relations.

18.   In their rivalry, the two have often had tense relations, and Dear did not respond Thursday to requests for comment on Hikind.

19.   It may also have effects beyond the art world, straining the already tense relations between Greece and Turkey and their respective allies on Cyprus.

20.   Later this month, Clinton keeps up his international diplomacy by going to India, a vast, impoverished nation with which we have often had tense relations.