Sentence examples for Heightened tension from inspiring English sources

But it is also a place of fierce competition and heightened tension.

The event provoked a small riot, arrests and heightened tension in the area.

There has been a mood of heightened tension at the Paris haute couture shows.

Street protests, first in Ankara and then in Istanbul, have heightened tension.

Murray holds to 15. "I fear heightened tension today," says Stuart Robinson.

Spectacular bomb blasts in Kabul, in August, and the Taliban's temporary capture of Kunduz, in late September, heightened tension further.

"Since it was misinterpreted, the reaction was disappointing, and in fact only heightened tension and increased mistrust".

But given the present atmosphere of heightened tension surrounding this issue, such comments are particularly dangerous and revealing.

Reports of the abduction in Europe by Hezbollah guerrillas of an Israeli reserve officer further heightened tension.

She sensed the soldiers' heightened tension: "We were drawing such huge crowds… I saw one guy carrying massive …plastic flowers.

In the meantime, there is the ever-present threat that the region could stumble into war as a result of the unintended consequences of the heightened tension.