11.   But Hytner gives it force and tension by keeping scenes taut and accentuating the life of a rustic village.

12.   Floral, her heavily pregnant older sister, relieves pre-ceremony tensions by rolling down a hill.

13.   Florida officials have further heightened tensions by vowing to aggressively check every shipment of foreign produce arriving by truck for possible diseases, chemical residues and insects.

14.   He said Netanyahu had created an atmosphere of tension by policy decisions meant to stop any peace negotiations.

15.   Lehane unwisely dissipates the sexual tension by having them tumble into bed.

16.   Officials do not want to further exacerbate tensions by looking like the pawn of a superpower.

17.   Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, in fact, managed to increase tensions by refusing to renounce a first use of nuclear weapons.

18.   Recent armed forays by North Korea into the DMZ represent a deliberate increase in tension by North Korea and appear related to demands for additional payments of dollars.

19.   She believed that a rocking chair alleviated lower-back tension by keeping the muscles moving, contracting and relaxing.

20.   The Clinton administration has sought to ease tensions by characterizing the process as perfunctory.