Tension with the Roman Catholic Church, the major voice for societal change, peaked in the early 1980s with the expulsion of foreign priests involved in political and land reform issues.

Tensions peaked in early October 1989, as protests were growing and the specter of Tiananmen Square hung in the air.

Tensions between Reclamation and the district farmers peaked during the 1920s, until on January 2, 1927 the two sides settled their dispute with a new contract.

Tensions between the two governments peaked again during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

Tensions this week peaked on Wednesday, when Governor Bush suddenly suggested he might send state agents to force the reinsertion of the feeding tube.

Tensions during the match peaked when South Korea closed the first half, leading by one point.

Tension peaking at one fifty - I repeat, one fifty percent.

Tensions with the police peaked in June 1966, when the construction worker Jan Weggelaar died during a demonstration.

Tensions peaked in 1997, when Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan threatened to join marchers to protest racial violence against the Irish.

Tensions peaked when Pizango responded to the government's threat to send in troops by stating that "Indigenous people are defending themselves against government aggression."