The phrase "aggravating tension" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or feeling that is causing increased stress or anxiety.
Example: "The constant arguments between the team members were aggravating tension in the workplace."
Alternatives: "increasing stress" or "heightening anxiety".
But Western diplomats say such a move would undermine the European, United Nations and NATO missions while aggravating tensions.
The numbers are rapidly increasing, aggravating tensions in the national debate over immigration.
And even in the environment and energy arena, trade disputes are aggravating tensions.
The rage for equality is conjoined with the pursuit of prosperity mandated by the global consumer economy, aggravating tensions and contradictions in inner lives that are then played out in the public sphere.
They talk of giving the city a special status, creating an open city for residents only, who, without outsiders aggravating tensions, could find a way to live and work together.
Aggravating tensions, the Chinese Catholic Bishops Council, a government entity, stripped Thaddeus Ma Daqin, 45, the auxiliary bishop of Shanghai, of his title this month, according to Catholic Web sites that cited sources in the Chinese church.
"The failure to stop abuses and possible war crimes by volunteer battalions risks significantly aggravating tensions in the east of the country and undermining the proclaimed intentions of the new Ukrainian authorities to strengthen and uphold the rule of law more broadly," said Salil Shetty, Amnesty International secretary general, in Kiev.
Oil has also brought its share of pitfalls for the fledgling democracy, fostering corruption and patronage, and aggravating tensions with the Kurdish minority in the north over the division of profits, a festering issue that could end up fracturing the country.
Harold James, a historian at Princeton University and the author of a new book, "The End of Globalization," said in an interview that increased competition in trade and unfettered immigration stimulated the growth of nationalism, aggravating tensions beween countries leading up to World War I.
"Nato's planned action... is evidence of the desire of US and Nato leaders to continue their policy of aggravating tensions with Russia", Mr Popov said.
