The country continues to experience ethnic tensions between its black population and the Maur (Arab-Berber) populace.
Yet short-run economic prospects are good, provided tensions do not again erupt between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians.
Tensions between the Greek Cypriot majority and Turkish Cypriot minority came to a head in December 1963, when violence broke out in the capital of Nicosia.
Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without ending the deeptensions between the two sides.
Tensions between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil separatists erupted into war in 1983.
In 2004, heightened political tensions with key donor countries and general donor fatigue threatened the flow of desperately needed food aid and fuel aid.
The dispute over the state of Kashmir is ongoing, but discussions and confidence-building measures have led to decreased tensions since 2002.
The government has engaged in several disputes with foreign oil companies over the terms of production agreements; tensions continue.
In late April 2006, internal tensions threatened the new nation's security when a military strike led to violence and a near breakdown of law and order in Dili.
The resulting influx of non-resident workers, who totaled one-fifth of the workforce in 2006, has fueled tensions among some segments of the population.
The dispute between the countries over the state of Kashmir is ongoing, but discussions and confidence-building measures have led to decreased tensions since 2002.
The country continues to experience ethnic tensions between its black population and the dominant Moor (Arab-Berber) populace.
In 2003, heightened political tensions with key donor countries and general donor fatigue threatened the flow of desperately needed food aid and fuel aid as well.
We know above all that all the tensions resulting either from false territorial settlements or from the disproportion of the numbers of inhabitants to their living spaces cannot, in Europe, be solved by war.
On the other hand, from the German point of view, a 100 per cent victory by Franco is not desirable; we are more interested in a continuation of the war and preservation of the tensions in the Mediterranean.
Frequently, however, even a slight impediment to binocular fusion, such as the application of a red glass to one eye, suffices to procure preponderance in the elastic tensions of the muscles, and to cause the fixed point to appear double.
The cure is not always complete; deviation still occurs on exclusion, or on particularly keen fixation; sometimes, however, also under conditions which can only be put down to a change in the elastic tensions of the muscles.
Seeking release for psychic tensions which were not understood and largely subconscious, they found it in a reversion to the oldest of the 'releasing instincts' that of hunting.
A tiller rope must be flexible to the last degree, but it must be strong enough so it will stand up under the swift tensions of a storm or in the lightning manoeuvers of a race.
The tensions all had to be secured in absolutely uniform weather.
The country continues to experience ethnic tensions between its black minority population and the dominant Maur (Arab-Berber) populace.
Tensions between the Dutch-speaking Flemings of the north and the French-speaking Walloons of the south have led in recent years to constitutional amendments granting these regions formal recognition and autonomy.
Tensions between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil separatists erupted in violence in the mid-1980s.
Case of suspension bridges; investigation of the curve which defines the boundary of the suspension chain; tensions at the extremities.
The tensions of civilized life could be escaped--albeit temporarily--in the dueling machine.
They can alleviate their tensions safely--without damage of any sort to anyone, and without hurting society.
We can't avoid the tensionsthat accompany space travel, no.
But if we can help you eliminate harmfultensions with a few run-throughs, why, it's not too high a price to pay, is it?
The surge of his more comprehensive feelings engulfed the lesser tensions of sex.
Like thunder from a clear sky comes the aimless discharge of the tensions that have accumulated among the people.
The next few years may witness increasing tensions between a highly centralized political system and an increasingly decentralized economic system.
The theoretic researches of Mr. Hopkins have taught us a good deal regarding the pressures and tensions consequent upon glacier-motion.
Yet, because of a tourist boom, short-run economic prospects are good, provided tensions do not again erupt between indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians.
Elsewhere, tensions between the Big Powers were growing and eroded their capability to institute a system of efficacious self- regulation.
These were exactly the kind of international tensions the murdered Prime Minister was keen to terminate and the IMRO no less keen to foster.
Tensions ran so high between Serbs and Croats that daily brawls broke in pubs and restaurants, trains and public places between Serb soldiers and Croat citizens in Croatia.
To prevent puckering when the tensions are correct, reduce the pressure of the foot by loosening the thumbscrew D (Fig.
Long-term prospects remain uncertain as development spending remains low, regional tensions remain high, and political tensions weaken Pakistan's commitment to lender-recommended economic reforms.
In 2003, heightened political tensions with key donor countries and general donor fatigue have held down the flow of desperately needed food aid and have threatened fuel aid as well.
In the short term, regional tensions will continue to affect tourism and hold back prospects for economic expansion.
Continued slow global growth and serious political tensions in the Middle East could result in negative growth in 2004.
You mean we can't keep up these tensions forever, Jim.
Tensions persisted for many years, but have lessened since about 1960.
But now, while Chiang Kai-shek executed all leftists, union leaders, and communists who fell into his hands, tensions in Hankow increased between the Chinese Communist Party and the rest of the KMT.
A look for example at Formosa in the years after 1948 will certainly help in an understanding of this situation: analogous tensions developed between the new refugees, the old Chinese immigrants, and the native Formosan population.
The fiery liquid burned into his stomach and scorched away some of the tensionsbuilt up during the night.
The team piled out, stretched the tensionsof the long ride out of their bodies, then started out through head-high dwarf trees that separated their landing spot from the lake.
But here the available tensions have been used up.
Between that point and F there is a quantity of unused tensions; beyond that point the tensions have been all consumed, but we have in their place an equivalent quantity of vis viva.
The nearer D approaches to F, the smaller is the sum of the tensions remaining, but the greater is the vis viva; the farther D is from F, the greater is the sum of the unconsumed tensions, and the less is the living force.
Tensions are now stored up, but vis viva is lost, to be again restored at the expense of the complementary force on the opposite side of the curve.
While this space exists, and as long as the atoms have not begun to move towards each other, we have tensions and nothing else.
In this position the sum of the tensionscapable of being exerted on D would be a maximum.
Now the principle of conservation affirms not the constancy of the value of the tensions of gravity, nor yet the constancy of the vis viva, taken separately, but the absolute constancy of the value of both taken together.
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