The heightened tension, in fact, had been a major factor in the President's change of view about the urgency of a meeting with the Soviet leader.

The second incident occurred on 1 September 1983, during a period of heightened Cold War tension, when a Soviet Su-15 interceptor shot down a straying Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island, just west of Sakhalin Island.

This caused a heightened level of ethnic tension leading to frequent hostilities between the politically and militarily dominant Krahns and other ethnic groups in the country.

This was a period of heightened tension within the RSDLP and led to numerous frictions between Trotsky, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.

With the heightened international tension of the 1930s the Court was used with decreasing regularity ; by a resolution by the League of Nations on 18 April 1946, the Court ceased to exist, being replaced by the International Court of Justice.

Gormley said of the New York site that " Within the condensed environment of Manhattan's topography, the level of tension between the palpable, the perceivable and the imaginable is heightened because of the density and scale of the buildings " and that in this context, the project should " activate the skyline in order to encourage people to look around.

Cram's acceptance of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine commission in 1911 ( on Goodhue's perceived territory ) heightened the tension between the two.

Such disputes could range from heightened tension or outright conflict due to disputes over water scarcity in the Middle East, to illegal immigration into the United States caused by the failure of agriculture in Mexico.

This heightened tension in the local population may have played a role in the ultimate capture and arrest at Varennes.

The financial Panic of 1893 heightened the tension of this debate.

The loss of Nolan and Cooper put the already unstable band into a state of heightened tension.

Unlike many other European epic cycles, the Irish sagas were written in prose, with verse interpolations at moments of heightened tension or emotion.

It has great gameplay, heightened by the superb suspense and tension, and a lot of replay value.

Panic soon beset the establishment in Britain after the French Revolution and the King's reinforced Jersey due to heightened tension caused by it.

Regardless, the Ōyama Incident heightened the tension in Shanghai.

It was a time of heightened tension between Japan and the United States, due to the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii by American marines and settlers, which nearly led to a rupture of diplomatic relations.

On April 14, 1986, in response to acts of terrorism then believed, and now known, to have been sponsored by Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi — in particular, the Berlin discotheque bombing of April 6 — and against the backdrop of heightened tension and clashes between the Libyan and U. S. navies over Libya's disputed territorial water claims in the Gulf of Sidra, the United States launched a surprise attack on key facilities in Tripoli and other parts of Libya.

The crackdown came during a time of heightened political tension regarding the Taiwan Straits and the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, and also during events symbolic of China's increasing international interdependence, such as the visit of the Greek Olympian envoy.

From series 5 onwards, all housemates evicted on the final night were interviewed in front of the crowd with the exception of Celebrity Big Brother 5 ( due to the heightened tension around the controversial events that took place ).

Following the Balkan Wars, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 was therefore a culmination of the heightened tension between Austria-Hungary and Serbia.

However, there they were met with heightened tension between British settlers and the indigenous Māori tribes.

It heightened tension with the rival faction that included Crown Prince Zhenjin (), Antong (), the head of Zhongshusheng and other Mongol aristocrats, and Chinese bureaucrats.

These events heightened tension in Alexandria, and eventually triggered violent riots with loss of life on both sides.

The 1991 Sovereign National Conference ( CNS ) was a sign of the increasing coherence of the anti-Mobutu forces and came as the Congolese Banyarwanda were in a state of heightened tension.

This led to growing tensions between the two brothers, which were only heightened by Constans finally coming of age and Constantine refusing to give up his guardianship.

Hostility between Kikuyu and Luo was heightened, and after riots broke out in Luo country KPU was banned.

Since 1866 Dargomïzhsky had been working on his opera The Stone Guest, a version of the Don Juan story with a Pushkin text that he declared would be set " just as it stands, so that the inner truth of the text should not be distorted ", and in a manner that abolished the ' unrealistic ' division between aria and recitative in favour of a continuous mode of syllabic but lyrically heightened declamation somewhere between the two.

Increasing urbanization heightened public awareness of the gap between social aspirations and reality of the young colony.

The result was the 7-year San Elizario Salt War, which heightened tensions between Mexicans and Americans in the 1870s.

While during the 1990s there was broad agreement between major political parties that the settlement of historical claims was appropriate, in recent years it has become the subject of heightened debate.

The historian J. G. M. Ramsey reported several Cherokee, Creek, and Shawnee attacks at " the Crab-Orchard " during a period of heightened tensions between Native Americans and encroaching Euro-American settlers in the early 1790s.

* 2008 Mumbai attacks: Following ten coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai, India's largest city, tensions heightened between the two countries since India claimed interrogation results alleging Pakistan's ISI supporting the attackers while Pakistan denied it.

The Navigators of the Spacing Guild depend upon melange for the heightened awareness and the prescient ability to see safe paths through space-time, allowing them to navigate the gigantic Guild heighliners between planets.

The Ludlow Amendment, introduced several times to the House of Representatives by Louis Ludlow of Indiana between 1935 and 1940 during an era of heightened isolationist tendencies, proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would require a national referendum to declare war, except in the case of invasion and attack.

All of this, together with the respect to his authority that he demanded, induced in his students an obedience and something of a " heightened consciousness " that passed into their lives transforming them into literal Hasidim of their rosh yeshiva, who in turn encouraged this by eventually personally donning Hasidic garb, ( begadim ) and behaving like something of a synthesis between a rosh yeshiva and a rebbe.

Shop-keepers complain of heightened competition between vendors, a situation made worse by the overall decreasing demand for goods as more villagers are forced to rely on contraband Mexican goods solely to be able to provide for themselves and their families as inflation continues to afflict rural communities throughout our country.

The Turner-Gable films ' successes were only heightened by gossip-column rumors about a relationship between the two.

The First World War heightened tensions between Anglo-American and German-Americans.

As tensions heightened between Britain and the American colonies in the 1770s, the Blount family gradually aligned themselves with the Patriot cause.

Investors as well as ordinary people generally prefer hard currencies to soft currencies at times of increased inflation ( or more precisely increased inflation differentials between countries ), at times of heightened political or military risk, or when they feel that one or more government-imposed exchange rates are unrealistic.

The effectiveness of the torture was heightened by the interposition of wooden pegs between the prisoner's toes.

Negotiations took place between them for a site to build a control centre for the area during the heightened atomosphere in the era of the Cuban Missile Crisis.