Sentence examples for stirring tensions from inspiring English sources

A collapse of Japan's currency would make its exports cheaper overseas, stirring tensions with the United States on trade.

But a raucous seventh inning quickly turned up the game's intensity, stirring tensions that began to simmer in spring training.

The levees have slowed the dispersal of floodwaters from the north, stirring tensions between Bangkok residents and those living outside the flood barriers who want the water drained quickly to the Gulf of Thailand.

MOSCOW — At least eight soldiers have been killed in two days of renewed fighting this week along the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan, stirring tensions just as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is visiting the region.

BRUSSELS — NATO escalated its protests on Wednesday over Russian policy toward Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region, accusing Moscow of stirring tensions by announcing plans to increase the number of Russian soldiers there.

Unlike the Madrid bombings, which had the effect of prying apart the coalition in Iraq, the attacks that Isis has inspired, instigated or directed, have been aimed at killing as many as possible in "enemy" countries and stirring tensions in societies.

Still, the visit is stirring tension.

Thomas benched Marbury twice in a week, stirring tension in the locker room.

After the annexation of Crimea, pro-Russian forces are stirring tension in this Black Sea port, and there are weekly standoffs between demonstrators who want to be part of Ukraine and those who want closer ties to Russia.

In an evening press conference he once again accused the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, of stirring tension in Jerusalem, and called on the international community to express its outrage.

It's the first time a sitting president has visited, and the event comes at a time when the FBI-Apple debate is stirring tension between civic offices and tech companies.