The threat of suicide has created a chronic tension at the Guantánamo prison - a tactic frequently discussed by the captives and a constant fear for their captors.

In the city, she had lived in chronic tension to withstand the shock of anger, indignation, disgust, contempt.

"The yips are essentially an inability to move the small muscles in the hands smoothly because of chronic tension, a reduced blood flow and the overreaction of neurotransmitters," Pirozollo said.

The major goal is to release chronic tension, referred to as "armoring", and to rebalance the flow of a putative energy lifeforce based on the traditional Chinese concept of qi.

They say he moved behind the scenes to foment the 1994 uprising by Zapatista guerrillas, and they blame him for the economic downturn and chronic tensions in Chiapas since then.

Using a pre-post research design, 70 patients with chronic tension or migraine headache were treated with wet-cupping.

Both have had sharp relationships with liberal faculty members, and their new-found prominence has aggravated chronic tensions.

Not least, there is the chronic tension between Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Pataki, plus the complications of Mr. Powers's own relationship with each man.

Deep tissue massage, which attempts to treat chronic tension in deep muscles of the body.

However, there was chronic tension with the university faculty and he was criticized for forcing the chancellor of the University's Knoxville campus to resign.