Sentence examples for major upsurge from inspiring English sources

TCA have identified a major upsurge in reports of harassing, intimidatory and threatening practices against consumers who refuse to buy or cancel or encourage others to cancel.

Key threats on the horizon to Obama securing this re-orientation of policy remain the possibility of further devastating terrorist attacks on the US homeland from al-Qaida, or a major upsurge of tension in the Middle East.

In the midst of the most intensive week of diplomacy since the Ukraine crisis erupted a year ago and with western leaders warning of a major upsurge in violence if this week's negotiations fail, there was scant sign of any let-up in the war of words between the Kremlin and western capitals.

In recent years there has been a major upsurge of interest in the integrated global positioning system (GPS) / inertial navigation system (INS) as a cost-effective way of providing accurate and reliable navigation aid for civil and military vehicles (ships, aircrafts, land vehicles).

Following the civil wars of the reign of King Stephen (1135 1154) England underwent a major upsurge in religious activity and saw a significant growth of monasteries.

Brief interventions delivered by computers and the internet, for whom university students are prominent in the emerging literature 85– 90, is another area which has seen major upsurges in research activity.

Fearful of another populist upsurge, major East Coast institutions like the Rockefeller Foundation lent support to these islands of enlightenment.

The third major factor in the upsurge of violence was the alliance of extremist groups that emerged last year as AQIM's southern faction coordinated operations with two other main local extremist outfits, Ansar Dine and the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa.

Urbanization, sedentary lifestyles, and high rates of obesity are major contributing factors to the upsurge in cases.

While more research is needed, Bartholomew says, social media "appears to be a major factor in a recent upsurge in the most serious types of outbreaks involving motor dysfunction" -- as in the Le Roy case.

While marked socio-economic changes following the end of Soviet rule have been pinpointed as the major causal factors for the TBE upsurge in the eastern and Baltic regions of Europe [3], [20], these factors cannot be responsible for the heterogeneous increase in TBE incidence in the rest of Europe.