Sentence examples for tensions intensified from inspiring English sources

Oil prices rose slightly on Wednesday as the political tensions intensified.

The attacks came as tensions intensified between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims across the Middle East.

East-west tensions intensified later that year when Stalin began to blockade access to western Berlin.

But tensions intensified on Thursday when the country's pro-government parliament passed the new laws imposing a number of restrictions on civil society, including a ban on wearing helmets or masks at rallies and hampering work of public organisations.

Tensions intensified on 10 August, when Dakota Access workers, accompanied by armed security guards, arrived to start construction of an access road for heavy machinery needed to complete the pipeline crossing of the Missouri.

Mr. Obasanjo named Mr. Alli the administrator of Plateau State on Tuesday, a week after declaring a state of emergency and forcing out the state's elected officials as fighting driven by ethnic and religious tensions intensified.

The U.S. defense secretary, Leon E. Panetta, signed a deployment order on Friday to send 400 American military personnel and two Patriot air defense batteries to Turkey as its tensions intensify with neighboring Syria.

INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta signed an official deployment order on Friday to send 400 American military personnel and two Patriot air defense batteries to Turkey as its tensions intensify with neighboring Syria, where government forces have increasingly resorted to aerial attacks, including the use of ballistic missiles, to fight a spreading insurgency.

Anxiety over increased racial tension intensified further after the murder in 2004 of Theo Van Gogh who had made a film on the position of women in Islamic society.

In fact we are not "taken down" to the tonic key, but to "non-diatonic chords and secondary dominants" combining with "chromatic melodic tension intensified through outrageous harmonisation and root movement".

"On your knees!" The tension intensifies for one, two, three breaths before with a crackle the bag is lifted from my head.