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The effort has heightened the tension between California, which legalized medical marijuana in 1996, and the federal government, which forbids the drug.

Foundations are trying to persuade members of the House of Representatives to eliminate proposed legislation pending before the Ways and Means Committee that would force the organizations to spend more of their assets on charity, and their efforts have heightened public interest in their affairs and conduct.

His efforts have heightened awareness globally of how government agencies track average internet users' data, unbeknownst to them, and raised questions of how other countries have proceeded on this front.

The Richard & Judy effect has heightened a trend that was already apparent in the book market: towards a greater concentration of promotional efforts behind fewer titles.

The "impending doom" of global warming has heightened legislative efforts for a comprehensive national climate change policy.

The move has heightened fears that he is grasping at straws in his effort to win political support from any quarter.

The fact that the new uranium enrichment plant was part of a Revolutionary Guards base has heightened suspicions outside Iran that it could be part of an effort to develop nuclear weapons.

The execution last weekend of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a Shiite cleric and opposition figure in Saudi Arabia, has heightened the Saudi-Iran regional rivalry, threatening to derail already shaky peace efforts over the wars in Syria and Yemen.

A raid on the offices of BP and its Russian partner TNK-BP in Moscow has heightened concerns that the Kremlin is set to launch a new round of efforts to wrest control of Russian oil fields from private hands.

The effort comes as support for the deal has faded in some recent public opinion polls and as criticism has heightened in Congress.

The one-child policy has heightened competition.