As his losses grew, Mr. Assad unleashed fighter jets and SCUD missiles, intensifying fears that mounting desperation would push him to lash out with chemical weapons.
Residents of the neighbouring port town Nikolayev reported Russian troops had arrived overnight, intensifying fears that Moscow will send further soldiers beyond the Russian-speaking Crimean peninsula into eastern Ukraine.
The declines also reflected broad pessimism about the debt crisis in the euro zone and intensifying fears about the economic outlook, despite the release of a statement late Thursday in Washington by the world's major economies that reiterated their commitment to the stability of banks and financial markets.
PARIS — There was little sign of a softening by unions protesting planned pension reforms in France on Friday as industrial action and demonstrations moved into a fourth day, intensifying fears about fuel supplies as strikers continued to target the fuel industry.
BEIRUT, Lebanon Lebanonon's main anti-Syrian opposition group called on Saturday for the Hezbollah-led government to resign in the wake of a powerful bomb attack for which it blamed Syria, intensifying fears that Syria's civil war could lead to a political crisis in Lebanon.
U.S. stocks fell for the third straight session Monday, pushing the blue-chip Dow below the psychologically key 10,000 level for the first time since last December, amid intensifying fears the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates as early as June.
Rachel Louise Snyder, an assistant professor of literature in American University's M.F.A. program, which is pass/fail, believes the economic downturn may have intensified fear among faculty members of the consequences of failing students.
As a clinical and political psychologist, I worry that social/emotional forces will intensify fear, and confusion that could disrupt a golden opportunity for unity, healing, and restoration of our role in the world.
It intensified fears over China's real economy.
The news intensified fears over the euro currency union's ability to cooperatively resolve its problems.
