Attacks on churches have intensified this month, setting off mob violence in northern Kaduna State.
Over the succeeding decades, however, ethnic diversification gradually intensified, eventually setting off heated debates over the relative merits of publicly funded programs for assimilation and for multiculturalism.
These lessons are likely to come in handy as global temperatures intensify and set health crises in motion.
In 2006, Taylor intensified her training, setting the Beijing Olympics as a goal.
At thirty-three, Riefenstahl was a strikingly attractive if hectic figure, with dark hair, chiselled features, and an obsidian gaze intensified by eyes set slightly too close together.
The physical setting intensified the stakes of my choice too.
The impact of the show is indicative of the constant interplay between advertising and popular culture, which is intensified because of its setting.
WASHINGTON — President Obama's decision to bring home more than half of the American troops in Afghanistan over the next year is setting off intensified debate over an issue with big consequences for Afghanistan's future: how long the United States and its allies should pour civilian aid into the country.
The new White House position, sent to Capitol Hill on Monday night, set off intensified negotiations between administration officials and a small group of Republican senators.
Swanson's mirror-filled set intensified the concept of dual worlds.
That extra fierceness appears to be the inevitable, if unsettling, expression of a defensive mind-set intensified of late by concerns about terrorism, escalating crime rates and economic instability.
