Sentence examples for before heightened from inspiring English sources

Slowly it has slipped into wider use: first as a carry-on bag, before heightened terror alerts, then for weekend trips to town, and now it's used for work.

Subsequently, no other broad evacuations have occurred, however smaller village-specific evacuations have occurred before heightened eruptive activity in May 2010 and February, 2014.

Foremost, OVT scientists have the paramount responsibility of fingerprinting geophysical trends of Tungurahua´s activity and providing early warnings before heightened eruptive activity.

Although the department was notified that the arriving patient might have been infected with an arenavirus, there was a 12-hour delay before heightened infection control measures (specific for managing a viral hemorrhagic fever patient) were instituted.

There are few recognizable actors, since Mr. Van Sant populated the movie with kids who had never acted before, heightening the realism and the tension.

NEWS ANALYSIS, PAGE A13 Local Authorities Respond Police officials nationwide said staffing levels would be increased for Sept. 11 observances, but most said those plans were in place before the heightened alert.

South Korea officials, meanwhile, pressed North Korea to return to the status quo of a month ago, before it heightened the crisis by expelling international monitors and removing the seals on containers that had housed nuclear fuel, which could be readily used in weapons production.

Full decantation an hour before serving heightens its lingering latent complexities.

And the fact that Mr Fogh Rasmussen had had, and used, a right to censor certain passages before broadcast heightens their discomfort.

"As states turn to more untested methods of execution and unreliable dangerous drugs that have never been used in this way before, it heightens the need for medical professionals, who know what they're doing, to be involved," argued Ty Alper, associate director of the University of California Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic.

In El Salvador, where Mr. Bush will travel on Sunday morning, security had already been heightened before the bombing in Peru.