21.   Incidentally, if you pull the shades down at night, you may be aggravating the situation by trapping moist air between shade and glass.

22.   Letters such as this one only aggravate the situation.

23.   Recent comments from VW Chief Executive Ferdinand Piech, however, have aggravated the situation, a spokesman said.

24.   Reeves apparently did not say anything further to aggravate the situation.

25.   Rose rejected the requests, saying they would only aggravate the situation.

26.   Salt might have aggravated the situation.

27.   Showers lingered in parts of South Texas but did little to aggravate the situation.

28.   The recent increase in corporate bankruptcies will further aggravate the situation, NRI said.

29.   The situation was aggravated by a higher-than-normal number of power plants off line because of repairs.

30.   The situation was aggravated by several mines, which had been planted in the winter by militants.