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2007 World Netball Championships

In December 2006, following months of tension, Commander Voreqe Bainamarama staged a military coup to unseat the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.

3rd World Festival of Youth and Students

The third WFYS was held in a period of growing international tension between the Soviet Union and the western powers; it took place against the background of the Korean War and the spread of communism in Central Europe and China.

A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights

At one stop on the book tour associated with the publication and release of the book at the David A. Clarke School of Law of the University of the District of Columbia, Jackson's message was perceived as saying that American history can be studied as an analysis of race, but that economics and the tension between states’ rights and federal rights are the true basis of a domestic history revolving around pursuit of economic development, political power, and personal freedom.

André Kolingba

This gave rise to growing tension between so-called "southerners" (including the riverine Yakoma) and "northerners" (including the savanna Gbaya) in the CAR which led to violent confrontations between these groups during the Patassé era (1993–2003).

Antiochus III the Great

This enterprise earned him the antagonism of the Roman Republic, since Smyrna and Lampsacus appealed to the republic of the west, and the tension grew after Antiochus had in 196 BC established a footing in Thrace.

Asoka Bandarage

Her recent publications include Ethnic and Religious Tension in the World: A Political-Economic Perspective (Routledge), and The Sri Lankan Conflict: A Multi-Polar Approach (Harvard International Review).

Author

Pierre Bourdieu's essay "The Field of Cultural Production" depicts the publishing industry as a "space of literary or artistic position-takings," also called the "field of struggles," which is defined by the tension and movement inherent among the various positions in the field.

Buckling

If spoke tension is increased beyond a safe level, the wheel spontaneously fails into a characteristic saddle shape (sometimes called a "taco" or a "pringle") like a three-dimensional Euler column.

Burn My Eyes

The album's themes generally tie into the social disorder and corresponding inner tension that the band was exposed to in their native Oakland, California, reflected in Robb Flynn's lyrics.

Chhagalnaiya Upazila

Contrary to a popular tale involving the visit of Mahatma Gandhi to ease communal tension of this area, along with his constant companion on tours, a goat ("chhagal" in Bangla), the name of this region considerably antedates that incident of communal riots in 1946.

Curly Watts

Opposition from his old-fashioned parents Arthur and Eunice led to tension between the couple, and Shirley left when Curly threw out the guests at his surprise party so he could revise for upcoming HND exams in Business Studies.

Dare Not Walk Alone

Dare Not Walk Alone is about the civil rights movement and its aftermath in St. Augustine, Florida, the site of prolonged inter-racial tension and protests by the NAACP and the SCLC.

Diedrich Diederichsen

A main topic of his writing is the tension between subjectivity, identity politics, and culture industry in Post-Fordist society.

East Sumatra revolution

Several factors have been attributed to the outbreak of violence: the widespread belief that the sultans collaborated with Dutch colonial forces; resentment of the aristocratic class, and tension between ethnic and non-ethnic Malays.

Edmund Jacobson

He found out that tension and exertion was always accompanied by a shortening of the muscular fibres, that the reduction of the muscular tonus decreased the activity of the central nervous system, that relaxation was the contrary of states of excitement and well suited for a general remedy and prophylaxis against psychosomatic disorders.

Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II

He saw service on the Mexican border due to the rise of tension along the border following the Battle of Agua Prieta.

Ezra Laderman

The Battle of the Bulge, crossing the Rhine at Remagen, liberating Leipzig, meeting the Russians at Torgau on the bank of the Elbe were the points in this constellation that was filled with tension and waiting, victory and grief.

Geneive Abdo

Abdo previously worked at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, a project created under former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to defuse tension between Western and Islamic societies.

Given Campbell

When tension over secession increased, Campbell enlisted in the 2nd Regiment Missouri Volunteer Militia under Col. John S. Bowen.

Glen Matlock

In the 2000 documentary The Filth and the Fury, the band members generally agree that there was tension between Matlock and Rotten, which Matlock suggests was exacerbated by Malcolm McLaren's attempts to pit the two men against each other.

Jagdgeschwader 5

After combat with USAAF B-17's on 27 May 1944, he was killed when his Bf 109 crashed after hitting high tension cables while forced-landing near Chevry, France.

Joe In The Future

Joe is a tough rogue and his yarns tend to feature Goodfellas-type petty street tension that boils to a violent climax, but through it all the title character tends to eschew anger, malevolence and disrespect.

Jūnigatsu no Love Song

In 2001 Gackt went to visit one of the poorest countries in the world, Madagascar, and afterwards the world was in a state of tension due to September 11 attacks in the New York City, and he was moved and impressed how the children smile in the moment when they're hungry and there's a gap between the rich and the poor worldwide.

Lori Robinson

Taryn's flight instructor, James L. Weaver, age 64, was flying the Diamond Aircraft Industries DA20-C1, single-engine airplane, N63PA, when it clipped two high-tension power cables while simulating engine failure near Pleasanton, Texas.

Mathematical anxiety

Mark H. Ashcraft, Ph.D. defines math anxiety as “a feeling of tension, apprehension, or fear that interferes with math performance” (2002, p. 1).

Military history of Djibouti

It was triggered by tension which began on April 16, 2008 when Djibouti reported that Eritrean armed forces had penetrated into Djiboutian territory and dug trenches on both sides of the border.

Military history of the Soviet Union

Soviet participation in the Spanish Civil War was greatly influenced by the growing tension between Stalin and Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany and an avid supporter of the fascist forces of Francisco Franco.

Mimic 2

After three men are discovered hideously mutilated (their faces have been removed) and strung up among New York City's high-tension wires, Detective Klaski (Bruno Campos) stumbles upon a link: Each of the men knew entomologist Remy (Alix Koromzay), a teacher at an inner-city high school.

Nina Cassady

In the seventeenth season opener, there is almost immediate tension with her boss, Lt. Anita Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson), who states that she already had a "hand-picked" replacement for Det. Joe Fontana (Dennis Farina), a much older and more experienced detective.

Nobody Lives for Ever

Benson praised the story's "many surprising turns" and believed that if it were a film it would "have much of the same tension that something like Hitchcock's North by Northwest had."

Palestinian American

Others came as a result of the tension during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1967 Six-Day War.

Patrick Besson

Besson supported Serbia during the Yugoslav Wars, which created tension with other intellectuals like Michel Polac, Romain Goupil and Didier Daeninckx.

Prayers for the Assassin

Parts of New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California have been claimed by the Aztlan Empire (formerly Mexico) and tension between the I.R. and A.E. have risen due to land claims.

Residencies of British India

Before the Rebellion of 1857, the role of the British Resident in Delhi was more important than that of other Residents, because of the tension that existed between the declining Mughal Empire and the emerging power of the East India Company.

Ryan Martinie

Ryan tends to accentuate his work with thick low end, double stops, and chords that add warmth or awkward tension ("Pharmaecopia", "World So Cold" and "Not Falling").

Sarbloh Warriors

In 2006, Singh complained that the game was unfairly stereotyped by the BBC as being anti-Muslim, stating that it was meant to educate the youth on the complicated history of Sikh-Muslim tension.

Station Group Banak

Throughout the Cold War, Norway enforced a policy to disallow allied aircraft to operate further north than Bardufoss and Andøya, in an effort to minimize tension with the Soviet Union.

Supermarine Swift

The Swift had been ordered into "super-priority" production, a policy created by Sir Winston Churchill who had become Prime Minister in 1951 at a time of particular tension between NATO and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War; the Korean War had begun in 1950.

Surface tension

Surface tension is exposed, for example, any time an object or insect (e.g. water striders) that is denser than water is able to float or run along the water surface.

Surfactants in paint

Macroemulsions in latex paint are inherently unstable and phase separate, so surfactants are added to lower interfacial tension and stabilize polymer particles to prevent demulsification.

Taep'oong International Investment Group of Korea

Despite the ongoing tension, the Taep'oong has proposed a co-operative solution to the remaining assets of South Korean Hyundai's Mount Kumgang Tourist Region in North Korean territories.

Tension Prophecy

Tension Prophecy is a technical brutal Death Metal band from Tehran, Iran, formed by Behnam, Mohammad, and Arash M in 2008.

The Business of Fancydancing

The film explores the tension between two Spokane men who grew up together on the Spokane Reservation in eastern Washington state: Seymour Polatkin (Evan Adams) and Aristotle (Gene Tagaban).

Theodore William Moody

F. S. L. Lyons, R. A. J. Hawkins editors, Ireland under the Union: Varieties of Tension: Essays in Honour of T. W. Moody

Thomas Armat

It was one of the first projectors using what is known as the Latham loop (an extra loop of the film before the transport mechanism to reduce the tension on the film and avoid film breakage, developed independently at the same time by Woodville Latham and his sons).

Thomas Bilson

He was ex officio Visitor of St John's College, Oxford, and so was called to intervene when in 1611 the election as President of William Laud was disputed, with a background tension of Calvinist versus Arminian.

Timeline of three tallest structures in the world

The 1500-metre-tall Magnolia ETLP is excluded from the timeline because this offshore tension-leg oil platform is supported by the water, it is floating, and if the water were removed, the tension in its legs would most certainly cause it to buckle.

Voyage in the Dark

Through the character of Anna, Voyage in the Dark presents the tension between wanting to be integrated into English society and simultaneously resisting it, a trait it shares with other works of modernist literature written by Anglophone authors such as the Maori writer Witi Ihimaera, whose characters express a desire to engage with and absorb the best of the colonial legacy, yet simultaneously seek to assert their own identity and to avoid becoming absorbed by the culture of the colonial power.

WOJB

Founded in 1982 with the intention of bridging the culture gap between the Native American population in the area and their non-Native neighbors in a time of heightened racial tension, the station is now a fixture of the northwestern Wisconsin airwaves, presenting a variety of programming, much of it presenting the culture of the local Ojibwa community and the wider Anishinaabe culture.


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