Collocations withtension
These are words often used in combination withtension.
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chronic tension
Chronic tension-type headache is headache occurring on more than 15 days a month for six months in a year.
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communal tension
Local authority allocation of accommodation, therefore, inevitably exacerbates communal tension.
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considerable tension
There is considerable tension with the militias' idea of the past being readily and easily accessible, for example.
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constant tension
This is probably due in part to the fact that we assume the same constant tension for each solution curve.
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creative tension
Deftly exploring ambiguities, it holds contrasting attitudes in creative tension.
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dramatic tension
Even in this embryo state it has dramatic tension and lyrical flow.
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dynamic tension
The theses are themselves in dynamic tension.
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emotional tension
Proneness to emotional tension should result in intense discomfort and distress following transgression.
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ethnic tension
They do not study the cases of serious ethnic tension which get successfully defused.
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growing tension
There is evidence elsewhere of a growing tension surrounding widows' rights to land in this period.
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increased tension
There has been increased tension and uncertainty.
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increasing tension
It is naturally our policy to avoid increasing tension.
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internal tension
As soon as the changed system has chosen its new path of development, the internal tension falls.
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mounting tension
They will lead to mounting tension.
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muscular tension
Clearly, excess muscular tension begins to inhibit the freedom of the body.
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nervous tension
It releases nervous tension that otherwise would come out as violence.
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oxygen tension
Such models normally prescribe the oxygen tension at the proliferating rim and may involve 'compartmentalising' the tumour into proliferating, quiescent and necrotic regions.
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political tension
The relationship between government and opposition reached a high point of political tension.
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racial tension
Urban riots had left many dead and increased racial tension.
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relaxation of tension
I find in it some stress on a relaxation of tension.
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rising tension
They are the culmination of a process of rising tension in a country or region.
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source of tension
From the point of view the opportunities and problems encountered in achieving these desires, though, these changes are a significant source of tension.
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tension pneumothorax
In the presence of air production, chest tube clogging can cause tension pneumothorax, and in the setting of infection, empyema.
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underlying tension
In the underlying tension between religion and science, philosophy was perched ambiguously on both sides of the divide.
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unresolved tension
In the political beliefs and instincts of individuals and through the activities of nationalist organizations idealism and pragmatism continuously came into unresolved tension.
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