tense situation

Nothing like a good tense situation to sweat you out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Her death further complicated an already tense situation in Zimbabwe's government.

"Could he have used foul language in a tense situation?

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

The officers asked that their names not be used in discussing the tense situation.

They left after I passed the field sobriety test but it was a very tense situation.

It was a technique she found useful in tense situations.

It was a tense situation, no two ways about it.

"That confronted me with a lot of tense situations," she said.

Without any apparent training, she seemed to know how to handle herself in tense situations.

"It's a tense situation over there, but here it is really fine.

A tense situation was arising for war with the French seemed inevitable.

That created the conditions for a very tense situation.

It served as a great icebreaker for what could have been a tense situation.

Government officials said they banned demonstrations to calm the city and the tense situation.

The immigration official said the agency did not want to add any trauma to the boy's life in an already tense situation.

When you're in a tense situation, your feet may swell."

"Seems to me you may have learned a little bit about staying cool during a tense situation," Cap said.