Sentence examples for stakes heightened from inspiring English sources

Eight years later, a similar transformation is under way, the stakes heightened by two foreign wars and the worst economic collapse in decades, but Cox will not be there to cover it.

With Wednesday's game stakes heightened, the 6-foot-3, 230-pound forward ramped up his typical high energy and gave the Ducks a 2-1 lead 3 minutes, 32 seconds into the second period, taking a Teemu Selanne pass behind the net and wrapping around to beat Sharks goalie Antti Niemi to the left post.

And as the net begins to tighten around Spector, so the stakes heighten.

It's the kind of thing that happens on an emotional level in human relationships all the time, but by using this theatrical conceit, the stakes heighten.

I understand the stakes are heightened for women like Slaughter, who left her post as Director of Policy Planning under Secretary Clinton to be with her teenaged sons.

The latest intense round of negotiations are being described in Brussels as "the tunnel", with both sides reluctant to divulge details in a sign of the high stakes and heightened sensitivity around the talks.

So I guess it was stressful in the sense the emotional stakes were heightened for a two-week period.

"Rising strategic stakes have heightened the regional and wider international competition," she wrote in a new assessment.

But the stakes are heightened by the particulars of the case, which, in many ways, mirror the crime she accused Stroh of committing before: two, male partners participate in the rape of one woman; one of the partners can't be identified; the other ends up on trial for his life, defended by Philip Stroh.

Because events that include the words "emergency" and "disaster" already raise the stakes and heighten emotions, the time to discuss possible scenarios is right now, today.

In the tradition of much American independent cinema, the narrative remains flat, without stakes-heightening plot points.