Sentence examples for intense officials from inspiring English sources

Now that those criteria are close to being met, the pressure on Mr. Bush has become more intense, officials say.

Because competition for grants, housing perks and career advancement is so intense, officials base their decisions on the number of papers published.

That shooting has brought the actions of the officers involved and their tactics under intense official scrutiny.

That is when the men on the cover of Asia Weekly, already by then under intense official scrutiny, became China's most wanted.

But the business of slaughter, particularly in March during the annual Kurban Bayrami -- or feast of the sacrifice -- has come under intense official scrutiny.

Such intense official reactions certainly indicate a shift in national attitude in the last, oh, 50 years -- since the "Bloody Sunday" march across Edmund Pettus Bridge, the half-century anniversary of which was recently celebrated.

With six days to go before Election Day, campaign activity in Florida is as intense as officials in either party can remember.

Pakistan's anger about the Bin Laden operation was so intense that officials in Islamabad, the capital, hinted in news reports in May that they might allow the Chinese to see the helicopter wreckage, but it was unclear at the time whether Pakistan's government might follow through on the veiled threats.

To the south and across the border in Congo, where the war is particularly intense, wildlife officials worry that the animals in Kahuzi-Biega National Park are being slaughtered in huge numbers: There are estimates that hundreds of the roughly 2,000 eastern lowland gorillas there have been killed for food or in the fighting -- and perhaps all the elephants.

How far that relationship extends today remains a topic of intense debate, Western officials said.

With Iran's motives and operational intentions a subject of intense interest, American officials have closely studied the episodes.