1.   Although delays exacerbated fears around the country of vote rigging, international observers reported no serious problems in the counting.

2.   A stimulus program must not exacerbate those fears.

3.   Gail Dudack, the chief investment officer at UBS Securities, said that the continuing crisis in Asia simply exacerbates fears about slowing profit growth in the United States.

4.   That pace exceeded even the most optimistic forecasts by private economists and exacerbated fears of an overheating economy.

5.   The inclusion of these countries, especially Italy, would exacerbate fears in Germany that the euro would lack credibility and so resemble the lira more than the mark.

6.   The rise of the Klan reflected national anxieties about the new immigrants and exacerbated those fears, scholars said.

7.   Those signals, however, exacerbated fears among some Middle East experts that the U.S. war on terrorism could further destabilize the region.

8.   Both India and Pakistan possess medium and long-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons, which has exacerbated fears of a nuclear arms race on the impoverished subcontinent.

9.   Energy analysts expected prices to drift somewhat lower, barring any news that might exacerbate fears about oil supplies from the Middle East.

10.   Energy analysts expect prices to drift somewhat lower, barring any news that might exacerbate fears about oil supplies from the Middle East.