Sentence examples for heightened years from inspiring English sources

The tremendous surge of research in science, engineering, and medicine created a critical information overload, which was perceived as a threat to science and national security (dramatically realized in 1957 with launching of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into space by the Russians during the heightened years of The Cold War).

Minneapolis's Replacements and Hüsker Dü signed with Warner Brothers and fell apart, less from label meddling than personality conflicts and substance abuse heightened by years of hard touring.

That effect may only become heightened in years to come.

For many years, heightened enforcement has been viewed as the linchpin in the city's success in cutting crime.

Seriously, are this lot really, really dull, or have my expectations been heightened after ten years of increasingly ludicrous series?

Concerns have been heightened in recent years by scandals involving companies' secret videotaping of employees, as well as intercepting their e-mail and bank data.

Because things have arisen which have made Britain's awareness of the other – that's what prejudice is all about, the other – heightened over the years.

GaveKal Dragonomics, a research firm specializing in the Chinese economy, said in a report Thursday that it was "still true the Chinese leadership's obsession with growth and stability is heightened during transition years.

Concern over gay men in the priesthood has simmered in the church for centuries, and has been heightened in recent years by claims from some Catholic scholars that 25 percent to 50 percent of priests in the United States are gay.

But growing discontent with Hong Kong's widening wealth gap and a lack of ballot-box democracy have in recent years heightened criticism against what is increasingly viewed as collusion between government officials and the megarich.

Germany's Nazi-era history has made the country extremely sensitive to matters of individual privacy, and concerns have been heightened in recent years by scandals involving companies' secret videotaping of employees, as well as intercepting their e-mails and bank data.