21.   In such tense situations, the leadership on both sides must maintain a constant floor presence and be willing to intervene in an instant to help de-escalate the crisis.

22.   Oakley, ever the peacemaker, intervened for the second straight night in a tense situation by coming between the players.

23.   Once again, a Williams sister on the spot defused a tense situation on a day when off-court dramas wove their way into tennis.

24.   Only a year ago, tense situations on the football field or elsewhere could distract him.

25.   Sha did not directly refer to the tense situation in the Taiwan Strait.

26.   Sometimes, it seems, tense situations are resolved by good humor, by good sense or by letting fate take its course.

27.   Some employers go out of their way to create a tense situation to see if an applicant can handle it.

28.   That exacerbated an already tense situation between Cowher and Donahoe.

29.   That creates a tense situation for Bernstein and Thomas, who had alternated there with the first unit.

30.   Tense situation in a big game?