Yet few in Nigeria appeared to be cheering Mr. Jonathan's heightened resolve.
Neither was there any disguising Scotland's heightened resolve following their close call against Romania, nor the sterling efforts of their front five.
Yesterday's increase in the Consumer Price Index, to 3.8%, and RPI inflation, to 4.8%, heightened workers' resolve to secure a bigger pay rise this year, unions said.
Yet since Justin Fashanu made the decision that brought so much anger and invective, and estranged his own brother, not one professional footballer in this country has felt able to gather the nerve to come out into the open, a possibility that seemed to be heightened by the resolve of the Welsh rugby union captain Gareth Thomas to reveal that he was gay.
Just as awareness of the secondhand negative consequences of passive smoke inhalation has heightened the public health resolve to curb smoking, learning about the secondhand effects of alcohol misuse may heighten the resolve to study and implement effective interventions to reduce alcohol misuse.
(Note where the Brit placed the shalls to heighten the expression of resolve, and the will expressing futurity before the stressed finish. Bush held to the more American will not, in front of the emphasized tire, falter and fail).
Midyear elections in both Malaysia and the Philippines heighten the pressure to resolve the crisis, as both governments have already come under fire for their poor handling of the situation.
How do you resolve the heightened life expectancies, size of population and changing habits (e.g. the westernisation of diets) etc., with decreasing space, food, and clean water to support all these things?
But Luhrmann's brand of heightening doesn't so much resolve the Uvula Problem as blow it to smithereens.
The pressure to resolve the nominating fight also heightened speculation about a Clinton-Obama ticket.
You're a moderator if you... -- find that occasional indulgence heightens your pleasure -- and strengthens your resolve -- get panicky at the thought of "never" getting or doing something.
