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Example Sentences
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The growing conflict has raised fears of a wider regional war involving neighboring Gulf nations and U.S. forces stationed throughout the Middle East.
From Salon
This may raise speculation the carrier could be deployed to the Mediterranean to help defend British interests threatened during the conflict in the Middle East.
From BBC
Taken together, these fractures raise the risk that the cooperation and trust needed to resolve a future financial crisis will be considerably more difficult than in the past.
From Barron's
Taken together, these fractures raise the risk that the cooperation and trust needed to resolve a future financial crisis will be considerably more difficult than in the past.
From Barron's
Now troops are massing near the border region, raising concerns that Ethiopia’s long-term ambitions will feed into a long-running conflict with ethnic Tigrayan rebels, who dominate the Ethiopian side of the frontier.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
