Sentence examples for fuelling tensions from inspiring English sources
He quietly reversed Obama Administration edicts limiting the C.I.A.'s role in strikes by American drones, fuelling tensions with the Pentagon.
Proposed changes to planning rules risk fuelling tensions between neighbours by "opening the floodgates" to thousands of unsightly house extensions, councils have warned ahead of a Commons vote.
After initial talks to try and resolve the issue, the matter has been put on hold since the Mumbai attacks last November in which 165 people were killed, fuelling tensions between the two quarrelsome neighbours.
A statement from the foreign ministry accused America of "fuelling tensions and nurturing its European allies' anti-Russian fears" to create a pretext for expanding its "military presence and hence strengthen its influence in Europe".
Clutching a picture of him, he says: "I have seen a Red Cross list of prisoners who are still alive, and he is on it". A decade after a fragile ceasefire was implemented, the uncertainty over the destiny of people like Ikhtiyar is fuelling tensions in the long-running conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
But Uighur activists say that China's strong-armed tactics in Xinjiang - including cultural and religious repression - are fuelling tensions.
Many Venezuelans had been living on the streets in makeshift shelters, fuelling tension with local people.
BERLIN, April 19 (Reuters) - A leading conservative politician said on Thursday that Islam did not belong in Germany, fuelling tension at a conference on integrating Muslims that also debated a controversial Salafist campaign to hand out copies of the Koran across the country.
The uncertainty has quickly fuelled tensions on the island.
These stories fuelled tensions around race and immigration, and even led to clashes on the docks.
The appointment of William McDougall a well-known Canadian expansionist as the territory's first lieutenant governor also fuelled tensions and Métis fears of English Canadian domination.
