Sentence examples for had been intensifying from inspiring English sources

The acrimony between the Obamas and the Clintons had been intensifying in the days leading up to the Wisconsin primary.

The occult mania that crested in the decades before the First World War had been intensifying throughout the nineteenth century.

But American observers, reluctant to recognize the historical quality of the hostility, sought other reasons for the anti-American sentiment that had been intensifying in the Islamic world for some time.

The speech by the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has become known for his baldly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic remarks, came as tensions had been intensifying with Israel, which regards Iran's nuclear program as an existential threat.

Speculation on Kmart's financial condition had been intensifying for weeks as the company faced a cash shortage that was accelerated by a slump in holiday sales and a failed price-cutting campaign.

In recent years, decades of growing inequality have been compounded by the 2008 western financial crash; xenophobia and racism had been intensifying; and the moribundity of the status quo was increasingly visible.

Throughout his career, his charisma had been intensified by a redemptive quality.

However, they had conflict over economic interests, which had been intensified.

In Dallas, a schools spokesman, Donny Claxton, said security had been intensified since Sept. 11.

The redivision of the continent begun by the American Revolution had been intensified by rivalry in the fur trade.

State media has said authorities believe that she and Heywood "had conflict over economic interests, which had been intensified".