1.   Alternating attempts at forthright assertion of authority and tentative gestures of conciliation exacerbated the situation.

2.   The current cuts in public expenditure will inevitably exacerbate this situation.

3.   This situation is exacerbated by the inadequacy of current social security provision, for both disabled people and informal carers.

4.   The situation was exacerbated by the reported withdrawal of Russian Interior Ministry forces, seen as protection against Georgian nationalists.

5.   Shevardnadze had in June accused Russian leaders of exacerbating the situation.

6.   I think to impose any other penalty upon him would merely be to exacerbate the situation.

7.   In winter the situation is exacerbated by cold air which seals in the dirt, preventing it from escaping over surrounding mountains.