Sentence examples for heighten concern in from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, Zaev's imprisonment would deepen political divisions and heighten concern in the European Union over Gruevski's perceived authoritarian turn in the landlocked country of 2 million people, which has long-term ambitions to join the EU as well as NATO.

The discovery of an anthrax case in New York City -- coming on top of three anthrax exposures in Florida -- has heightened concern in a nation that was already jittery and waiting for the next terrorist act to occur.

The 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai heightened concerns in India over the government's inability to eavesdrop on encrypted communications.

There was heightened concerned in the agency and the Nixon administration that Whitlam had named specific purported CIA officers' connections to the Pine Gap tracking station near Alice Springs.

Although economic growth in Singapore has been quickening this year, the data heightened concerns in financial markets that slumping global demand for electronics could mean trouble for Singapore and Southeast Asia's other export-dependent economies.

Rogge said the Salt Lake Games would be staged as planned from Feb. 8 to 24, despite heightened concerns in the wake of Tuesday's attacks in New York and in Washington.

But the incident heightened concerns in a city already on guard about the possibility of bioterrorist attacks and set local emergency response agencies in motion to investigate the patient's condition to determine if he was infected.

Some analysts said the public pressure might have heightened concerns in Berlin that supporting the merger could have risked high-technology jobs in Germany — a gamble Mrs. Merkel and her party might have been unwilling to take before federal elections next year.

But the hardline taken by Downing Street and an equally robust response from European leaders, who have emphasised the free movement of labour as a pillar of the single market, have heightened concerns in the City that Britain will eventually leave all the EU's major institutions.

"With recent events in Paris and California, and heightened concerns in other cities, we feel it best to limit our travels to within Canada for the remainder of this school year," the memo reads.

And he acknowledges that hard times heighten concerns about income disparities in the American tug of war between policies that enhance individual opportunity and those that equalize outcomes.