That share climbed rapidly in the aftermath of the euro s introduction.

At the same time, political tensions between socialists and non socialists escalated.

Tensions have also risen following moves by Latin American governments to soften their anti drug policies. Last July, for example, Uruguay s lower house of parliament passed a bill that would legalize the production, sale, and consumption of marijuana.

On the contrary, these tensions have heightened as a result of changes in the top echelons of the Turkish armed forces, particularly the replacement last August of General Hilmi Ozkok as chief of the Turkish General Staff.

Violence across the country escalated, with many fearing civil war.

Between 1988 and 1989, racial tensions between Arabs and blacks escalated.

(As economists would say, problems of asymmetric information have increased.)

The world economy is hard wired to the assumption of a strong America, and Americans benefit from this. But the more their politicians argue over the debt ceiling, the greater the risk that the wiring will become irreparably frayed.

True, sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq have escalated since the fall of Saddam.

Between March 2 and July 26, 1992, the conflict escalated into a military engagement.

In Kyrgyzstan, just over the last few weeks, unprecedented levels of violence occurred between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks.

This new development is part of Saudi Arabia's continuous crackdown on human rights activists which has escalated widely since the beginning of this year.

But the more their politicians argue over the debt ceiling, the greater the risk that the wiring will become irreparably frayed.

After the beginning of fighting around the city of Lawdar in early April 2011, violence escalated around Zinjibar as well.

The claim in the report that Conflict has also escalated along the Myanmar Bangladesh border cannot be farther from the truth.

Tensions have also been on the rise since Ahmedinejad fulfilled his campaign promise to enforce Islamic strictures on social life.

Then, on October 23, 1956, a demonstration by students of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics escalated into an uprising against the Soviet puppet government in Budapest.

So, it went from about five percent, which was when this meme started, to 70 percent at the end of voting.

By 1974 the situation in the north escalated again into the Second Kurdish Iraqi War, to last until 1975.

All four face the ticklish problem of succession, and speculation has been mounting for some time of possible attempts to keep power in the family.

As the King's disputes with the English Parliament grew into the English Civil War, James stayed in Oxford, a Royalist stronghold.

After the Kielce pogrom of 1946, the flight of Jews accelerated, with 100,000 Jews leaving Eastern Europe in three months.

While the authorities have sought to quell the protests cordoning off central New Delhi and subjecting the rest of the city to traffic restrictions violence has escalated.

His political base has faded, owing to Iran s deepening economic crisis, which has been intensified by the conflict with the West over the nuclear issue.

In the aftermath of a crisis that has been intensified by the rhetoric of class conflict, Russia might be able to extend its control more significantly, and at a lower price.

The greater the repression that religious parties face in secular police states, the more extreme their politics are likely to become.

Recently demonstrations have escalated, with clashes between protesters, police and thugs occurring at the Bahrain Financial Harbour and University of Bahrain.

There are no two Tunisias One for the university graduates and another for those who don't have university degrees.

It was of deep concern that the dangers faced by personnel in the field had increased dramatically over the past decade.

In 2001, the uprising escalated into an armed conflict, and one of the major incidents was the destruction of the Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank town of Jenin.

But the pressure on him to go has steadily risen, to the point where he has now almost promised to give up in the summer of 2007.

Indeed, those attacks were stepped up, with America s use of drone warfare in Pakistan reaching an unprecedented height over the past year.

The political heat is also being turned up in the Arctic Council, a body set up to facilitate cooperation between states with Arctic territories.

Strict unemployment (people actively seeking a full time job) stood at 20.2 in 2000, 21.9 in 2004 and spiraled to 29.4 in 2008.

In particular, tensions have grown between the Malay majority and the country s large Chinese minority, which has been quicker to benefit from Malaysia s economic opening to the world.

Its center has shifted from Iraq (where sectarian strife has recently escalated again) to Syria, but it encompasses Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia as well.

However, in today's armed conflicts, violations of human rights and international humanitarian law have escalated, with tragic consequences for civilians, especially women, children and minorities.

Attacks on immigrants went into high gear in February, when the US Congress passed a bill that will make it illegal for any state to issue driver s licenses to undocumented workers.

In February 2008, Cameroon experienced its worst violence in 15 years when a transport union strike in Douala escalated into violent protests in 31 municipal areas.

If the Security Council fails to authorize action, those of us determined to protect Libyan civilians will face a more difficult choice should the violence escalate.

Earlier in the afternoon, 10 separate plumes of smoke rose from Southern Falluja, as it etched against the desert sky, and probably exclaimed catastrophe for the insurgents.

After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic is completing a major reorganisation and reduction of the armed forces, which intensified after the Czech Republic joined NATO on 12 March 1999.

In the year since the breakdown of the trade talks in Cancun, sentiment has increasingly grown in the developing world that no agreement is better than a bad agreement.

If social tensions rise, China s government is likely to respond with greater repression, which will bode ill both for its relations with the West and for its medium term political stability.

But, in the end, he decided to interrupt his vacation and offer amounts of aid that were successively revised upwards, in a global competition which promised to benefit those who were desperate for help.