Sentence examples for heighten the authority from inspiring English sources

The students did not win agreement on their demand to heighten the authority of the vice provost for educational equity, by giving him the power to hold 2percentt of a school's budget in escrow if it failed to make progress toward diversity.

Now, as the Hamas-Fatah talks play out, yet another development has emerged to heighten the tension: Egyptian authorities on Monday accused Ilan Grapel, an American-Israeli citizen in Egypt, of spying for Israel and ordered him held for 15 days.

In his plea agreement, Mr. Headley said Ilyas Kashmiri, an Islamic militant operating in Pakistan, had said the attackers should behead captives and throw their heads out of the newspaper building to heighten the response from Danish authorities.

The authorities warned that high temperatures and winds would probably heighten the danger for several days in the state.

Their imperfections heighten the ambiguity.

"To heighten the flow," he said.

The effect is to heighten the horror.

To heighten the joke, have kids.

The omissions only heighten the intrigue.

It's only to heighten the experience.

Here they pause to heighten the drama.