Sentence examples for intensifying friction from inspiring English sources

What this year's Democratic nomination fight did was to accelerate that transition and thrust it into the open as never before, exposing and intensifying friction that was already there.

He sees a decentralisation of Skid Row, and thus a more even distribution of services for the homeless across the county's 4,751 square miles, as the only way of alleviating both the problems within it and the intensifying friction with the surrounding city.

BRAWL BETWEEN LAKERS AND KINGS: In an exhibition finale marked by a brawl between Los Angeles's Rick Fox and Sacramento's Doug Christie, the visiting Kings beat the Lakers by 93-88 Friday to intensify the friction between the conference rivals.

The events intensified the friction between Mr. Kerry and conservatives in his church who called for bishops to sanction Catholic politicians at odds with church teaching by denying them communion.

The friction intensified this month after the WikiLeaks Web site published a December cable that quoted Mr. Pascual questioning the Mexican Army's reluctance to act on American intelligence about a drug cartel leader.

In 1996, as friction intensified amid predominantly white, affluent residents and the Central American men who gather there to solicit landscaping, construction and other day jobs, immigration rights advocates filed a class-action discrimination lawsuit against the village.

Friction intensified between the barons and the king.

The friction has been intensifying for months.

The frictions between the military and civilian leaders have been intensifying since the American operation in Pakistan in May that killed Osama bin Laden.

The city was predominantly Greek in population, though there were also Syrians and Armenians, and the latent Greek-Latin friction was intensified when Bohemond replaced the Greek patriarch with a Latin one.

Friction also intensified with Apple, a former ally, as they continued to compete aggressively in mobile phones and there were reports that Google's flagship phone, the Nexus One, was not selling as well as expected.