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The latest abduction came against a backdrop of sharply heightened tensions between Syria and Israel in recent days.

The death on February 8th of two members of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) at the hands of the state police has sharply heightened tensions.

With voter concerns over safety sharply heightened by the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan, a few of France's neighbors — including Germany — have begun to shut their nuclear facilities.

And the wider message seemed clear: The slowdown placed the Cameron government's $128 billion, four-year program of spending cuts and tax increases — policies on which it has staked its survival — at sharply heightened political risk.

The disclosure of the plan comes amid a period of sharply heightened tension between Jews and Palestinians in Jerusalem, which has been the centre of daily violence in recent days.

The move put Democrats in a vise and sharply heightened tensions on Capitol Hill, where administration officials and senior lawmakers from both the House and Senate opened the first round of talks in hopes of reaching an accord on the expiring tax cuts.

Despite the many positive developments in foreign relations that China's Good Neighbour Policy had helped to bring about by 2005, tensions in Sino-Japanese relations heightened sharply.

Joe Levasseur's sharply angled lighting heightens the effect with red, blue and stark white.

Historically, dollar-yen volatility has tended to lessen in a year when Americans vote for a president and heighten sharply the following year.

After 1896 the volume of world trade rose sharply again, but the sense of heightened economic competition persisted in Europe.

"The economic crisis in the U.S. caused the dollar to drop sharply and the threats against Iran heightened geopolitical tensions," Mr. Khelil said, according to Bloomberg News.