Approval is expected quickly now that events in Hong Kong have heightened awareness, Government officials said.

Last Tuesday's events, Lawton said, heightened that feeling.

Global events have heightened our awareness of these domestic issues.

The events of September 11, 2001, heightened our national awareness of the external threats our nation and our democratic values face.

Recent events had heightened his awareness of his own masculinity, to phrase it euphemistically.

These events have heightened anxiety among investors and physical traders of oil, which has caused prices to rise and remain at high levels.

These events galvanised Islamists the world over and heightened their popularity with the Muslim public.

With the news media attention the race figures to draw in the city, the event could heighten interest in adventure racing, he said.

I understand that recent events in London have heightened interest, in Member States, about data transfers.

Subsequent events have heightened concern that Pakistan's brief democratic interlude could now be ending.