A series of incidents last week escalated tensions along the Blue Line to an alarming degree.

Tensions are reported to have escalated after Aulehan elders offered what was considered to be a wholly inadequate sum of blood money in compensation.

True, sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq have escalated since the fall of Saddam. But contrary to common perception, Iraqi Shiites do not form a homogenous block that opposes the supposedly unified Sunnis.

In North Kivu on 26 August, tensions escalated near Rutshuru following repeated clashes between Mayi Mayi elements and ex Rassemblement congolais pour la démocratie Goma (RCD G) elements who have yet to participate in the brassage process.

Conflict has also escalated along the Myanmar Bangladesh border.

He repaired injured feelings that might have escalated into permanent hostility.

In the last few months of the year the violence escalated.

Consequently, the tension in the region has escalated to an alarming proportion.

It reduces the tensions.

So if they retaliate with the same force, the first person will think it's been escalated.

Continued tensions impede humanitarian access.

This quickly escalated into a five day war between Russia and Georgia, leaving Georgia ever more divided.

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Tensions will arise from such interactions.

Sadly, over the past weeks, acts of violence between Israelis and Palestinians have once again multiplied and escalated.

Rather, tensions have escalated steadily in recent years as the army has tried to Timorize the security forces, with a heavy reliance on unemployed young people as informers, and as socio economic problems (a high unemployment rate development policies seen as favouring non Timorese and an increasing number of Indonesian migrants) have fuelled resentment of the Indonesian presence.

A couple of hours later, the nearby government Election Commission building was set ablaze, and things escalated the following day.

Five years on, rather than subsiding, those problems seem to have escalated, posing serious threats to international peace and security.

As the Japanese war maniacs escalated their war of aggression, they were faced with a shortage of arms and labour.

The claim in the report that Conflict has also escalated along the Myanmar Bangladesh border cannot be farther from the truth.

It is reported that the level of violence has escalated and that the areas most affected are in the Far East.

We want to neutralize the tensions. We want closeness.

Well, medical malpractice litigation in the US has escalated the cost of malpractice insurance, so that competent physicians are leaving their practice.

In mid 1996, the conflict further escalated, leading to the evacuation of UNHCR staff from Kilinochchi to Mallavi in the Vanni region.

Unfortunately, during January 1997, the number of killings in Rwanda escalated sharply and the general security situation inside the country deteriorated severely.

Unfortunately, in the past six weeks, the Palestinian Authority has escalated its widespread incitement to violence in all of its official media.

A split within the Jumbesh organization has increased factional tensions.

That should further reduce the tensions between India and Pakistan.

Such problems not only create tensions, but also hinder production.

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26. Many different actors were involved in these processes of tension and unrest which unfortunately all too often escalated into open armed conflicts.

It is clear that the degree of official funding being disbursed in response to debt crises has escalated rapidly and threatens to become unsustainable.

Those arms fuel underlying tensions, exacerbate conflicts and hamper peacebuilding efforts.

The Governor's return has contributed to tensions within the local administration.

As we know, a conflict expresses tensions existing within a society.

Rumours regarding the perpetrators of the arson attacks further increased tensions.

Our world at the moment is full of tensions and suspicions.

The fresh food supermarket war has escalated, and have become a phenomenal topic in the new retail sector. Just what is new in new retail?

In the recent period, the Georgian authorities have sought repeatedly to focus the attention of the world community on the escalated situation in Abkhazia, Georgia.

Unfortunately, Eritrea's promising start was to be disrupted by the outbreak of a border conflict with Ethiopia in May 1998, which quickly escalated into war.

You begin to look at things having to do with your tensions.

Tensions between the 200,000 Sudanese refugees and Chadian host communities remain high.

What tensions and pressures would be created during the inevitable subsequent steps?

While it was a fact that intraregional migration had from time to time created tensions between some countries, the insinuation that tensions had arisen because of discrimination against immigrants was absurd.

Poor economic performance or inequitable development have resulted in a near permanent economic crisis for some States, greatly exacerbating internal tensions and greatly diminishing their capacity to respond to those tensions.