There was a permanent lopsided tension in the way he held himself.

No Western country would recognize the Communist Germany, and Berlin remained a source of permanent tension.

However, the treaty appeared to be far from perfect: permanent tensions on the lease details (including often reported issue of lighthouses) control continued.

After the concrete had set, hydraulic force was used to place the hidden cables in a state of permanent tension.

We have to fight daily for our budget, and the climate here is one of permanent tension and improvising to make ends meet.

Thus nature retains a permanent tension under artificial light.

No nation has an interest in permanent tension.

He argues that there is a permanent tension between the family and "individualist, industrialized society."

It has to be this way, as we have been through a tricky time, and there are permanent tensions and glaring contradictions.

From now on we should perhaps both accept and welcome a permanent creative tension between our two institutions - that, after all, is the heart of a mature parliamentary democracy.