Sentence examples for heightened before from inspiring English sources

In El Salvador, where Mr. Bush will travel on Sunday morning, security had already been heightened before the bombing in Peru.

The sense of jeopardy was heightened before kick-off through Arsène Wenger's persistence with Maitland-Niles, a converted midfielder whose steady displays against West Ham United and Newcastle did not necessarily inform what might pass here.

TBARS concentrations heightened before the beginning of spawning.

The scare heightened tensions before the midterm elections.

Upon her return, the odyssey continued, the search for meaning, for her place in the larger world, more heightened than before.

While the nation has gone on heightened alert before, this was the first time that officials had suggested soft targets might be the focus.

The powerful security services, still called the K.G.B. in Belarus, a vestige of the Soviet era, had been on heightened alert before the blast because of the political strains.

The week-long series of events where explosive devices began turning up in the post heightened tensions before the crucial midterm elections, which were happening across the US on the same day as Sayoc's court appearance amid tight security.

Instead of pumping up the narrative with familiar thriller (and musical) beats, Mr. Puiu builds tension through absence, creating palpable unease through lingering silences, a dearth of heightened drama — before the gun goes off, the exchanges are fairly banal — and an emptied-out apartment.

Officials said the police were on heightened alert before a planned student demonstration to mark the anniversary on Aug. 8 of the start of a military crackdown in 1988 in which between 2,000 and 3,000 unarmed pro-democracy protesters were killed.

But reports he would fly to Cuba were put in doubt when witnesses could not see him on the plane, despite heightened security before take-off.