Although there have been many contentious issues – a huge corruption scandal at the country's biggest oil company Petrobras, the rising power of evangelical Christianity and widening social tensions over same-sex marriage and abortion, voters appear to be most influenced by the most traditional of factors: the money in their pockets.
In recent years, the gap between rich and poor in Kazakhstan has widened, heightening social tensions.
As the state reversed course, taxing the countryside to finance urban development, growth in average household income and poverty eradication slowed while income differences and social tensions widened.
The economy is collapsing, income and social disparities widening, and geopolitical tensions around the Korean Peninsula escalating.
Administrators and board members may see these edits as a "conflict," but in the lives of young people whose families immigrated here from India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Japan, or elsewhere, the information they are being taught in school can translate into conflicted identities and widening circles of tension.
This results in your blood vessels widening, thereby reducing tension on the blood vessels and volume of the blood -- in other words, it lowers your blood pressure.
Therefore, a right-to-left shunt widens the difference between alveolar carbon dioxide tension (PaCO2) and PaCO2, which defines the alveolar dead space (see Equation 1, below).
For example, the new genetic information's power to change medical practice could aggravate international tensions by widening inequalities in access to health care within countries and between those in the developed and third worlds.
But for all its shiny veneer, Sweden struggles with similar problems, if to a milder degree: jobless youths, widening income inequality and tensions between native and immigrant populations.All have been cited as the cause of the unrest that saw 150 vehicles torched and did at least SKr63m ($9.5m) of damage.
Curiously, in an election marked by widening ethnic and communal tensions, the TMVP's candidates won in several areas dominated by Sinhalese and Muslims.In the two years since the government informally reignited the civil war partly in response to terrorist attacks by the Tigers several hundred young Tamil men have "disappeared" in eastern and northern Sri Lanka.
