Sentence examples for seriously heightened from inspiring English sources

The efforts to rewrite Japanese history have seriously heightened tensions with Japan's neighbors.

"Water shortage is seriously heightened there," says Zhao. "Urbanisation is quite limited by the shortage of water".

Next up, we see Earn and Paper Boi at a streaming music company called Fresh, which hasn't been seriously used to denote heightened levels of swag since the '90s.

I took it very seriously and played it very seriously in the early '30s style, which was so heightened and rather stylized".

Seriously, are this lot really, really dull, or have my expectations been heightened after ten years of increasingly ludicrous series?

Conversely, forty percent of cancer patients reported significant problems communicating their concerns in the pre-diagnostic period and needed recurrent GP consultations before being 'taken seriously'.[ 15] We hypothesized that the administrative tool may have heightened the practitioners inattentiveness to other important clinical issues and reduced the LAP scores.

"It's not as if boards don't take the fee issue seriously now, but this heightens awareness and probably causes boards to sharpen their pencils a bit more," said Ted Laurenson, a partner at Baker & McKenzie, who specializes in securities law.

This unease has heightened considerably since last June when Sheila suffered a brain haemorrhage and was seriously ill in hospital for weeks.

That sense of uncertainty was heightened today by the news that a postal worker in Washington is seriously ill with pulmonary anthrax, presumably from inhaling spores.

Under federal law, people who pose a heightened risk of violence cannot buy or own firearms, including convicted felons, domestic abusers, the seriously mentally ill and several other categories.

Growing evidence of a commercial herbicide in municipal compost has heightened concerns about the future of green waste recycling in California--a thriving business that could be seriously jeopardized if its end product is contaminated.