Sentence examples for sharpening tensions from inspiring English sources

The sharpening tensions within Fatah were unmistakable today.

But the stakes are high, with long delays in holding the poll, originally set for 2008, sharpening tensions.

Perhaps the most worrying development to come out of the Arab Spring, in terms of future oil supplies, may be the sharpening tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the two most influential members of OPEC.

But Kirkuk sits on a fault line between the Kurds and the Arabs, and deadly attacks like these are sharpening tensions precisely at a time when Iraqi leaders are deliberating over the future of this northern city.

While the military exercises continued, the prospect of the South Korean live-fire drills — scheduled for Tuesday but canceled within four hours of the announcement — had been sharpening tensions on a peninsula on tenterhooks after the North's artillery attack last week on a garrison island that is also home to about 1,350 civilians, mainly fishermen.

BEIJING — The Pentagon on Saturday said that Beijing had agreed to return an underwater drone seized by China in international waters, an indication that the two countries were moving to resolve an unusual incident that risked sharpening tensions in the run-up to the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.

According to Haaretz, Defense Minister Ehud Barak recently told the country's leaders, in private, "By sharpening tension with the Palestinians, we are inviting isolation on Israel".

President Obama discussed with Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel the sharpening tension in the separatist-controlled regions of eastern Ukraine The high-level diplomacy signaled that the international community is increasingly wary of Russian leaders' insistence that a relief effort be mounted to help civilians trapped in the two cities as the battle for their control culminates.

Mr Roh has also cut humanitarian assistance to ordinary North Koreans.Ms Rice is keen not to sharpen tensions (ship-boardings will apparently be few).

The strikes have sharpened tensions between the local tribesmen and the militants, who have dumped bodies with signs accusing the victims of being American spies in Miram Shah, the main town in North Waziristan, they said.

The agreement was declared at the Nato summit underway in Bucharest and will sharpen tensions between the US and Russia, which is fiercely opposed to the stationing of the system so close to its borders.