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FINANCIAL TIMES British Banks Lead a Sorry Pack as European Market Falters | British firms found themselves dealt the hardest blow in the shock that hit the whole European financial sector on Monday, after last week's stress tests failed to calm the market, but rather heightened fears, The Financial Times reports.

And as our planet adds another two billion people over the next 25 years, the dangers, complications, and human demands will not be lessened, but rather heightened.

It is not the quality of customer service that is driving them away, but rather the heightened competition from Blockbuster.

The advantage probably doesn't lie in the aggression itself, but rather in the heightened control, power, and social status that bullies enjoy, he believes.

Another intriguing possibility is that dopaminergic imbalance leads to heightened (rather than diminished) sensitivity in the 'mesolimbic gating loop' early in the disease and that the lower level of inferior frontal gyrus pars orbitalis activation in Parkin mutation carriers is in fact a compensatory response to such heightened sensitivity.

The holiday table, even for traditional families, is often a time of heightened tensions, rather than of peace and goodwill.

In the case of his plummeting-bomb view, Mr. Bay said, it is done to achieve a heightened reality rather than a musical fantasy world.

There are no distorted sets or dramatic shadows but rather a kind of heightened intimacy: small rooms with rough walls and bare floors, cramped quarters for a filmmaker whose earlier work ("The Outlaw and His Wife," 1918) was celebrated for its expressive use of open landscapes.

Carter suggested that rather than engaging in heightened military posturing, Russia should instead focus on improving its economy, which has been weakened by Western sanctions over the past year.

I aim for what the Buddhists call "beginner's mind": One filled with heightened observation, rather than the jaded dullness that comes when repeating the same task.

Campaigns that attempt to trigger help-seeking or smoking cessation behaviour by proxy in people close to those at heightened risk, rather than targeting the individual themselves may be more effective.