Anne W. Salladin, an expert on the national security reviews at the law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, adds that Chinese deals can provoke "heightened sensitivities" because they often involve companies with state ownership, "and the extent of state ownership is not always clear".
Well, it seems hard to generalize: among European manufacturers, studies appear to indicate that heightened import competition provokes a "significant" technological upgrading thanks to speedier innovation and diffusion.
The event provoked a small riot, arrests and heightened tension in the area.
Heightened awareness of symptoms provoked more prompt presentation to a practitioner (Ojala et al, 1982; Delaney, 1998; Gullo et al, 2001), whereas lack of awareness resulted in delay (Nagao and Takahashi, 1979; Mikulin and Hardcastle, 1987; Arvanitakis et al, 1992; Porta et al, 1996; Rothwell et al, 1997; Ibingira, 2001).
While these observations may suggest that heightened parasympathetic tone can provoke TdP in LQT3, this has never been systematically studied.
Neither side mentioned the nuclear tests, which heightened tension between the two countries, provoked global outrage and raised fears of a nuclear arms race in the region.
The demonstrations, and the violent reaction they have provoked from the country's security forces, have heightened tensions in a country that has been teetering on the brink of mass unrest for two years.
Senior officials have privately criticised the editors at the Beijing Morning Post for their reporting of the war games.China has one obvious reason for refraining from more heated polemics, or the kind of dangerous heightening of tension it provoked in 1996 when it lobbed unarmed ballistic missiles close to Taiwan's two biggest ports.
So far, the President-elect has leaned toward his campaign loyalists, heightening many of the fears that were provoked by his campaign.
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed into law a controversial package of counterterrorism measures, including tougher sentences for extremism and heightened electronic surveillance of Russian citizens, that have provoked condemnation from rights activists here.
S H E E T S was funny and thought provoking, though the experience of watching the show was obviously heightened by the situation.
