31.   It has also heightened tensions at home and with Moscow.

32.   More mayhem ensues, and music by Nine Inch Nails and White Zombie is used skillfully to heighten tensions.

33.   More likely, uncertainty over the map will simply heighten tensions between Republicans and Democrats, whites and blacks, and the various other factions in the General Assembly.

34.   Moreover, this dual standard could serve to heighten tensions in the rest of the city.

35.   Military officials worry that separation could lead to increased unemployment in the territories that would heighten tensions.

36.   Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is the target of a congressional investigation that could heighten racial tension in a presidential election year.

37.   Not surprisingly, these new pizzerias have heightened tensions among old-line pizza dynasties, which regard one other with all the sunny warmth of rival boxing promoters.

38.   On Tuesday night, tensions were heightened when NATO warplanes bombed suspected Serb military targets here.

39.   Others, however, saw the new program as a case of spending money to solve racial problems, which they say will only heighten tensions between the races.

40.   Pakistan set off five underground nuclear tests, heightening tensions with India and disapproving Western nations.

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%
heighten + n. >>共 303
tension 15.94%
concern 10.51%
fear 7.56%
risk 4.43%
security 3.78%
awareness 3.66%
sense 2.77%
expectation 2.01%
interest 1.95%
speculation 1.71%
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