The string tension is balanced against a single short helical spring, in compression rather than tension, mounted on the back of the "tremolo mounting plate".

Choreographic tension mounted in the third act as ominous trombone music threatened to summon Doomsday.

For most of the day, as tensions mounted in Federal District Court here, Judge Elfvin ignored the letter.

As social and political tensions mounted in Siena, Catherine found herself drawn to intervene in wider politics.

As tensions mounted in recent days, new miseries were added to the life of Nagorno-Karabakh inhabitants.

As tensions mounted in the 1950s, with smoking's correlation to lung cancer, the Commissioner of Baseball prohibited players from wearing their uniforms in cigarette advertisements.

She steamed to Inchon, Korea, on 20 January 1949 as tensions mounted on that peninsula.

Between late-1947 and mid-1948, as tensions mounted before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Aviron transferred all of its aircraft to the fledgling air force.

Pakistan found itself in a state of extremely high insecurity as tensions mounted with India and Afghanistan's infighting continued.

As tensions mounted in Europe, Wheeler supported the anti-war America First Committee.