21.   Increasing tensions, the organization granted a European Union request to investigate the legality of the American threat.

22.   Indian combat jets and helicopter gunships attacked a large guerrilla force dug into the snow-capped mountains of Kashmir Wednesday, sharply increasing tensions in the nuclear-armed subcontinent.

23.   It could be a sign of widespread corruption or simply the consequence of increasing political tensions between reformists and conservatives.

24.   Nevertheless there will strong incentives for Argentine consumers and businesses to buy locally produced merchandise, a development that is likely to increase tensions with neighboring Brazil.

25.   On the other hand, senior officials are aware that leaving the two sides to their own devices is most likely to increase tensions and thus create regionwide instability.

26.   Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, in fact, managed to increase tensions by refusing to renounce a first use of nuclear weapons.

27.   South Africa faces the delicate task of dealing with Rwanda while trying not to increase tensions with its neighbors, Zimbabwe and Namibia, which back Kabila.

28.   Standing below me, he holds the ends of both poles and gradually starts pulling, instructing me to resist as he increases the tension.

29.   That would more certainly increase tension between Japan and China and would harm the overall interest of regional security.

30.   The cables will be slowly tightened, increasing the tension in the concrete.