41.   There was a knot of tension in his stomach.

42.   The move has heightened tension in the state.

43.   The tension in the room had dissipated.

44.   Her joke diffused the tension in the room.

45.   His angry comments have exacerbated tensions in the negotiation process.

46.   Political tensions in the region make it unstable.

47.   Aha - tension in personal relationships.

48.   The dismissals came against a background of mounting political tension in Zanzibar and Pemba associated with the banning of Moslem stickers bearing the words Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim.

49.   The emergence of an Afrikaner paramilitary group calling itself Blanke Veiligheid in the gold mining town of Welkom led to heightened racial tension in the area.

50.   The deadlock in electing a president heightened the political tension in the country.