Sentence examples for has heightened as from inspiring English sources

Competition for investment dollars, meanwhile, has heightened as the world's stock exchanges have joined forces to bolster their offerings and save on costs.

Concern for the animals has heightened as the Arctic warms faster than anywhere else in the world and sea ice the bears use to hunt continues to melt.

Operation Condor, named for the large bird that flies above the peaks of the Andes, appears to have been a Chilean initiative, and interest in its activities has heightened as a result of the judicial case against Gen. Augusto Pinochet, that country's former dictator.

As Miami's public research university, competition to enroll at FIU has heightened as more students apply each year.

Its relevance has heightened as transnational corporations have tightened the grip on a world food system characterized by the commodification of basic resources.

The importance of oversight has heightened as the government has grown from a tiny acorn in 1790 with a budget below $10 million and a few officers and employees to a giant oak today with a budget exceeding $4 trillion and millions on the government payroll.

In recent weeks tensions have heightened as thousands of protesters and police have confronted each other in lengthy standoffs and scores of treehouses have been destroyed.

Concerns over antimicrobial disease transmission have heightened as abattoirs and dairy operations are consolidated and more livestock are confined in closer quarters.

Suspicion of foreigners is by no means unprecedented in Egypt, but it has heightened this summer as Egypt's new government and its backers across state and private media began to demonise Morsi and his allies as anti-Egyptian terrorists backed by an unlikely range of foreigners, from Hamas to Barack Obama.

The IRS Qualified Intermediary Program has heightened scrutiny as a result of the federal investigation into the Swiss Bank, UBS (the world's largest private bank).

Recent emergence of influenza A H5N1 and H1N1 strains has heightened concern, especially as a result of their drug resistance.