Sentence examples for conflict heightens from inspiring English sources

Conflict heightens the risk of children being exposed to abuse, violence and exploitation - with sexual violence often employed as a weapon of war.

As the conflict heightened today, mediators from the West African nation of Senegal flew north to meet rebel leaders.

The prospect of conflict heightened in 1988 when the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian passenger plane, killing 290.

The protracted (and occasionally overcooked) suspense, with internal conflict heightening the external stakes, put me in mind of the way episodes of "Breaking Bad" are constructed.

Then, conflict heightened significantly during September 2000 with initiation of the second intifada.

Add in alcohol, and the possibility for conflict only heightens.

The prospects for conflict are heightened by legal uncertainties.

In incident after incident, the President's impulse to minimize conflict only heightened it.

But this year, because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and heightened tensions in the region, few Israelis are making the trip.

National aviation boundaries are tight in eastern Europe, and the Ukraine conflict has heightened political sensitivities, with some capitals occasionally keen to exaggerate the risk.

BEIRUT — As Syria's yearlong conflict has heightened tensions in neighboring Lebanon between groups loyal or hostile to the Syrian regime, discord and factional infighting in Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camps have added to the country's instability.