Recently, the Palestinian Authority has taken some steps to contain Hamas violence, heightening friction between the factions, Palestinian officials and Western diplomats said.
Germany summoned the U.S. ambassador in Berlin on Friday following the arrest of a man reported to have spied for the United States, heightening friction between the two countries over alleged U.S. eavesdropping in Germany.
How do states' asymmetric interactions affect the heightening frictions in the SCS?
Jiang Zemin, Mr. Hu's predecessor as party chief and president, did both: he held on to the military post for two years after giving up his party title in 2002, which led to heightened friction within the party.
Along with deepening poverty and spreading unemployment, the economic crisis has heightened frictions between political and economic rivals, between employers and their workers, between shopkeepers and their customers and between ethnic and religious groups.
"The rent is going up, you see more people that you're not used to seeing around — it's heightened that friction," he added.
Ms Rousseff can ill afford heightened political friction at a time when she needs backing for tough spending cuts and tax increases to stabilise the economy and avoid a credit-rating downgrade.Just as Mr Janot delivered his findings to the Supreme Court, Mr Calheiros, until now Ms Rousseff's loyal ally, was busy undermining the president.
Presumably, a thermal barrier against one or both of these reactions is effectively heightened by friction between the beads and the glass surface (or between the beads and F1), leading to a longer dwell before torque generation.
Mr. Holder has been a popular target for Republicans, most recently because of a disputed gun-trafficking investigation called Fast and Furious, and his speech seemed likely to heighten partisan frictions.
While the cheaper yen could heighten trade frictions, Mr. Abe says he would like Japan to join the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an Asia-Pacific free trade pact supported by the Obama administration.
After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Schmidt refused to join President Carter's program of economic sanctions, heightening long-standing friction between the two leaders.
