11.   So many of them recoil at the hostility, grow tense with the media, get depressed by the metropolitan swirl.

12.   Tense with anticipation, Crowther assigns his friends seats in the chopper.

13.   People soon began gathering at the airport, tense with worry as airline officials kept them at the foot of a staircase below the EgyptAir operations office.

14.   Downtown Tehran was calm but tense with the vigilantes moving in as a de facto militia.

15.   He said the atmosphere in the camps before the shooting was particularly tense with rumors that a Zairean businessman had been robbed.

16.   Hebron, the only West Bank city where Israeli troops remain, was also tense with the army reporting a Jewish settler was stabbed and wounded.

17.   Kandahar, meanwhile, was reported tense with rival armed groups jockeying for control of key parts of the city and occasionally exchanging gunfire.

18.   Relations have been tense with the Orthodox leadership in Moscow, which has accused the Vatican of seeking to expand its influence in traditionally Orthodox lands.

19.   The mood in the capital became more tense with the detainment of the president of the transportation union, Victor Cole, and three other union executives.

20.   The match was tense with Roma and Slavia repeatedly missing scoring chances.