Sentence examples for was heightened last from inspiring English sources

This alliance was heightened last month by a controversial speech made by the Israeli leader to the joint houses of Congress in opposition to the White House.

That concern was heightened yesterday as the government reported that inflation, employer costs and economic growth all rose more than expected in the last three months of 1999.

The possibility that Ms. Vieira would leave "Today" was heightened last year when she opted for a one-year contract extension rather than a long-term extension.

In addition, the importance of children receiving flu shots was heightened last year after a number of children who had contracted the flu died in Colorado.

Speculation was heightened last week when Britain's top civil servant, Sir Gus O'Donnell, rejected a request from the inquiry chairman to approve the release of private letters that passed between Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush ahead of the invasion.

Awareness of head injuries in football was heightened last weekend when helmet-first collisions caused the paralysis of a Rutgers University player, a concussion to Philadelphia Eagles receiver DeSean Jackson and injuries to three other N.F.L. players.

The intense rivalry between the two companies was heightened last winter when Boston Scientific lured Guidant away from a proposed merger with Johnson & Johnson in a bidding war that ended with Boston Scientific paying $27 billion for Guidant.

The nervousness was heightened this week when the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said the economic recovery remained uneven but did not say the Fed would continue to intervene.

That sense of uncertainty was heightened today by the news that a postal worker in Washington is seriously ill with pulmonary anthrax, presumably from inhaling spores.

That fear was heightened late last year when a tabloid called Rolling Stone started publishing pictures of gay activists and other alleged homosexuals under the headline: Hang Them.

Security at the prison was heightened today and religious counsellors, doctors and the firing squad were alerted to start final preparations for the execution of four Nigerians, the two Australians, an Indonesian, a Brazilian and a Filipino woman.