Tension used in a sentence

Tension in a sentence as a noun

Again, who would you rather have managing that tension?

* Fads/ Jealousy: A lot of people here want to be rich and famous thus it creates tension.

As the cam rotates, it slowly raises up the hammer, which has tension provided by the spring.

At this point, there may be a huge amount of internal tension that's probably slowing things down.

This is a case where there's a real tension, but I think that we can solve it by applying some brainpower to the question.

Innovation will inevitably produce a certain amount of tension with those old laws.

But there is an inherent tension in an OS that's optimizing for that vs. constraining itself to the desktop and the desktop only.

I don't think the point of getting higher education is getting a job. I think it's an extension of the same reason we go to school: because an educated population drives knowledge further.

The tension comes from rushing to process enough people to ensure you don't have to go without food, or turn off electricity, or not medicate your family.

A hammer, represented as the horizontal pin, is released from a caught position with spring tension on it, which slams into the heart cam and forces it to reset to a predetermined position.

Normally you can't dry out a gel and have it retain its shape because the liquid/gas interface during evaporation/boiling has enough surface tension to tear apart the microstructure of the gel.

In all three cases, there's going to have to be some transformations, probably in both society/community and structure, to come back to a place where the institution contributes to the greater good, instead of being a source of unending tension and meta-arguments.

There is a long-time tension in the startup world between founders and VCs and, as someone who has worked closely with founders for nearly three decades, I can say unequivocally that it has not been the VCs who have tended to get the short end of the stick when the inequities arise.

That there is such a 'tension' between stability and speed says less about a real phenomenon being debated by database engineers and more about the fact that many people who call themselves database engineers have about as much business doing so as so-called doctors who have not gone to medical school or taken the Hippocratic oath.