1.   Each acquisition of military hardware and each movement of military forces seems to fuel GreekTurkish suspicions and inflame tensions.

2.   The shooting inflamed ethnic tensions.

3.   And delegates here said the document only inflamed tensions, making sensitive negotiations even more difficult.

4.   Anglophones assert that the revival of the language police will only inflame linguistic tensions.

5.   Any frank conversation was seen as inflaming tensions in a city determined to proclaim to the world that nothing was really wrong.

6.   At a personal level, she agonizes over how to report on a divisive issue without inflaming racial tensions.

7.   A run of arrests, especially if they involve combat, could inflame tensions and shatter the uneasy stability that now prevails in Bosnia.

8.   Critics said they were inflaming tribal tensions and trying to salvage the unsalvageable.

9.   Outside of the logistical problems of a base in India, such a move also could inflame tensions in the region.

10.   Sheriffs and theater owners believed the films would inflame racial tensions and send black folks rioting in the streets.

v. + tension >>共 395
ease 16.21%
defuse 7.54%
reduce 6.93%
raise 5.55%
heighten 5.47%
create 4.03%
increase 3.73%
escalate 2.29%
cause 2.15%
inflame 1.78%
inflame + n. >>共 139
tension 18.84%
passion 16.70%
situation 5.35%
sentiment 4.07%
feeling 1.93%
debate 1.93%
relation 1.71%
temper 1.50%
emotion 1.28%
dispute 1.28%
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