Sentence examples for heighten hostility from inspiring English sources

There are striking similarities between CPD's tactics of inventing "external threats to our national security" in order to heighten hostility with the Soviet Union in the late 1970s and the Neoconservatives' employment of similar tactics in the early 2000s in order to pave the way for the invasion of Iraq.

The rapid pace of gentrification in the past few years has heightened hostility to it, but the phenomenon itself is nothing new, including in Brixton itself.

Nevertheless, it appears as though we are a less hospitable nation (Quick, name your neighbors. Their kids. Their dog).. Hospitality has been exchanged for a heightened hostility.

S.B. 1070 particularly threatens LGBT people of color and LGBT immigrants, many of whom already experience heightened hostility, harassment, and even violence based on appearance, behavior, dress, and other characteristics.

On Nov. 12, 2016, Harakah al-Yaqin militants killed a senior army officer and further heightened hostilities.

Donor governments also respond to emergency appeals in light of natural calamities or heightened hostilities in situations of armed conflict.

An arms race may heighten fear and hostility on the part of the countries involved, but whether this contributes to war is hard to gauge.

It could also heighten discrimination and hostility against Hispanic communities in particular.

The Davydova affair was of a piece with other punitive and, at times, absurd prosecutions that had taken place since Vladimir Putin's return to the Presidency in May of 2012, a period of purposefully heightened suspicion and hostility.

The sense of isolation and hostility heightened in 1983 when a group of Muslim extremists bombed a Rajneesh-held hotel in Portland, Oregon.

SDEROT, Israel — Rockets fired from Gaza slammed into this small Israeli border town in quick succession Thursday evening, and Israeli airstrikes killed at least five Palestinians in Gaza, three of them civilians, on a third day of heightened tension and hostilities between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip.