Example sentences for: heightened

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  • Another Times story added that "fears have been heightened by what looks like an American renunciation of any controls over its huge nuclear arsenal," and "the appearance that Americans are moving away from international agreements and responsibilities can also be alarming."

  • Releasing performance outcome information (Quality Measures data) gives consumers additional information to consider when selecting a nursing home, and consequently, may also spur efforts to improve the quality of care provided in nursing homes overall [ 1 ] . These efforts to improve quality may result from increased consumer consciousness due to public reporting, and, consequently, heightened competition in the nursing home market based on relative quality of care, or may be a response to the incentive to compare favourably with other individual facilities based on publicly-reported data [ 2 3 ] . There may remain other motivating factors, but still open to debate is which effect has the greatest impact on healthcare providers' efforts to improve [ 4 ] .

  • It's like putting a filter over a camera lens: Some colors are heightened, but others are completely obscured, and the final result may bear no resemblance to reality.

  • One of Tintoretto’s best, the Marriage at Cana, is on the wall opposite the entrance, while three of Titian’s most vivid canvases decorate the chancel: Cain and Abel, Abraham Sacrificing Isaac, and David and Goliath, their drama heightened by the perspective di sotto in su (looking up from below).

  • Informal interviews indicated that the mobile vendors were more enthusiastic distributors of the job aids than were the wholesale attendants, largely because being involved in the programme apparently heightened their status.


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