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Humor can take the edge off a tense situation, too.

"Negotiation with these groups is the only way out of today's tense situation."

"We could use a little help here," he said, though his calm voice was not in keeping with the tense situation.

In that game, a player must answer a question about how he would resolve a tense situation.

They need to increase training on how to avoid turning a tense situation into a deadly one.

Nothing like a good tense situation to sweat you out.

Anxiety can be a good thing when it helps you deal with a tense situation.

The tense situation in eastern Chad has not helped much either.

The tense international situation left little room for such disputes.

You need your senior players to stand up in these tight situations.

If you get into a tight situation use your head first.

"It's always been a tight situation at the center," she said.

Often, in a tight situation, his mind would seem to grow tired from so much hard thinking.

Maybe a good thing anyway; humor was never out of place in a tight situation.

It's just that she may lose her discipline in a tight situation.

He also comes up with plans to help his brothers out of tight situations.

"But we had a lot of tight situations like that."

Much of the time I function well in tight situations.

However, she herself was often in tight situations as well.