21.   Tensions ran especially high in Pakistan, where President Pervez Musharraf tried to keep pro-Taliban protests from spinning out of control.

22.   Tensions ran high throughout Costa Rica.

23.   Tensions ran high Thursday as Chinese police officers scuffled with South Korean diplomats here in a dispute over an asylum seeker from North Korea.

24.   Tensions ran so high that the men refused even to shake hands at the outset of the talks, a standby in diplomatic proceedings.

25.   Tension also ran high at Rhodes Junior High.

26.   Tensions ran high.

27.   Tensions run high.

28.   Tension had run itself through my entire body, held a conference and decided to meet at the base of my neck, just northwest of my collar bone.

29.   Tension ran as thick as the cigarette smoke.

30.   Tensions run high during Super Bowl week, and by this time of the season, players get tired of seeing one another.