| 31. | Between hardline Seoul and soft-pedaling Washington, the North Koreans have enjoyed a license to keep the world on tenterhooks.
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| 32. | These processes are followed by stretching the cloth on great frames known as tenters, to which it is attached by tenterhooks.
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| 33. | The garrison town of Highcliff is on tenterhooks waiting for the return of the last British soldiers from war-torn Helmand.
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| 34. | Democrats and Republicans were not the only ones on tenterhooks for the 37 days it took to decide who would be the next president.
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| 35. | The fear and haste with which the villagers fled showed just how they have been living on tenterhooks, expecting a catastrophe at any moment.
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| 36. | The financial markets were on tenterhooks ahead of Friday's key February payrolls data to shed more light on the economy's vigor.
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| 37. | It is from this process that the phrase " being on tenterhooks " is derived, as meaning to be held in suspense.
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| 38. | We want to get the organizational issues sorted out so that people are not on tenterhooks wondering where they're going to be ."
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| 39. | Xinhua, whose articles reflect the opinion of the government, claimed that the improvement in relations placed " Taiwan authorities on tenterhooks ."
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| 40. | Philippe Goddin stated that the strips for this story " kept the reader daily on tenterhooks in a story replete with new twists and humour ".
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