Sentence examples for Exacerbating existing problems from inspiring English sources

The Met Office said flooding was possible, either from surface water caused by the rain or by exacerbating existing problems caused by recent bad weather.

Or as the former Foreign Secretary of the UK Malcolm Rifkind put it, "the Palestinians lack the basic structures needed for a state at the moment, due to political splits between Hamas and Fatah, so simply voting for a motion could make ourselves feel important, while exacerbating existing problems".

AES, an energy producer, said the attacks had exacerbated existing problems involving currency exchange rates and power prices.

Economic decline exacerbates existing problems of crime and drug and drink dependence, poor health and education outcomes and community integration.

Rising surface temperatures (particularly just prior to the monsoon onset, and in the north of the country) will exacerbate existing problems — health-related, water shortages (problematic every year near the capital), agriculture, etc.

We find that adoption of alternative seed sourcing strategies, designed specifically to account for directional climate warming, is likely to exacerbate existing problems by adding further complexity to decisions nurseries make about tree species and seed origins to produce.

Extremists do, as Cameron said, "thrive when they have ungoverned spaces in which they can exist, build and plan" and the aftermath of the Arab spring has not just opened up new terrain but also exacerbated existing problems of lawlessness and criminality.

FoxMeyer does not say that SAP's software failed, only that it was ill-suited for the company and exacerbated existing problems.

But the accident will exacerbate existing problems for the oil giant, giving its unions new negotiation leverage and further soiling the company's poor safety record, which already included several oil spills.

Even with these interim measures, LAX officials are worried that holiday crowds will exacerbate existing problems.

In particular, I find her hawkish foreign policy problematic--I don't think her foreign interventionism leads to the results we want, but exacerbates existing problems.