1.   All these differences were sharply exacerbated by the U.S. decision to stop enforcing the Bosnian arms embargo -- a decision seen as a betrayal in Europe.

2.   But it is a leap of faith to suggest that a crisis that exacerbates differences between European countries is the best way to unite them.

3.   By masking them, it may end up exacerbating the differences in the future.

4.   The deeply held regional differences were exacerbated, as the yoke of nationalism, which the conflict with Peru helped to maintain, had been gravely compromised.

5.   Britain opposes a single European currency because it will exacerbate the difference between haves and have-nots among European states, its foreign minister said in a speech published Wednesday.

6.   But with loyalties split, the elections were likely to exacerbate deep differences among Bosnian Serbs and further a division of their statelet.