Sentence examples for caused by heightened from inspiring English sources
FBI director James Comey conceded on Monday that he had little evidence to support his theory that a recent increase in crime was caused by heightened scrutiny of the police, as the White House appeared to distance itself from his remarks.
Travelers eager to avoid -- long waits at airports caused by heightened security are lightening their load and sending their luggage ahead.
Police said the disruption was down to the volume of holiday traffic coupled with delays caused by heightened security at the border in the wake of terror attacks.
Several studies observed that current or recent use of the pill was associated with a modest increase in breast cancer detection, but this finding could be caused by heightened surveillance of pill users.
Another possibility for our findings could be related to a Hawthorne effect, caused by heightened awareness of the clinical staff that resulted in a different response to post-implementation subject's clinical needs.
Concern for the damage caused by tourism was heightened by discussion of the building of a cable-car link to the site.
In these studies, it remained unclear whether the higher pandemic and post-pandemic incidence in children was caused by higher influenza activity, heightened physician awareness, more frequent or more sensitive influenza testing, or a more severe course of disease of A(H1N1 pdm09 [ 18].
Ohio also enforces a legal limit for THC-COOH "in combination with alcohol or other drugs" to account for the heightened impairment caused by the use of marijuana with other drugs.
Barriers caused by the funding process are heightened by monitoring and evaluation of policies and practices.
PMS sufferers score more highly on measures of family conflict (Kuczmierczyk et al. 1992), and the heightened sensitivities caused by PMS were greatest at home in a study of women in the USA, UK and France (Hylan et al. 1999).
I doubt this heightened state was caused by the drug's pharmacological workings.
