The intensified scrutiny of the candidate's background.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Just his name intensified her anger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savor Me Slowly] Reference

Aileen spoke half-heartedly; the mention of that name intensified the pain of an ever present thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

He started poorly by throwing an interception on his first throw but settled down as the rain intensified.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

After the crackdown on monks last month, international calls intensified for Asean to suspend the country from its ranks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burma's Big Break] Reference

Finally -- and even more concerning -- is how the involvement of federal and state banking regulators has "intensified".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Nickolas: National Media Finally Examining McCain's Son Role In Failing Bank] Reference

The call intensified again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watcher 3] Fire Watcher]

They have, in short, intensified their blockade.    From Wordnik.com.  [LEADERS, VISITORS ADDRESS CDR CONGRESS] Reference

It also calls for 'intensified' interaction between the media of the two countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [rediff.com] Reference

WOODSTOCK, Ont. - Despite an "intensified" search for missing eight-year-old Victoria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Corp. have suspended the process, found no evidence of robo-signing during an "intensified".    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference

After this encounter, Zakhary's campaign to humiliate and intimidate O'Bric "intensified," she claims.    From Wordnik.com.  [wacotrib - Latest News Headlines] Reference

Many years ago, one of our favourite catchwords was "intensified" and we even had a Festival song with that name.    From Wordnik.com.  [JamaicaObserver.com | Lead Stories] Reference

"intensified", because the markets took fright at the warning of a "choppy recovery" from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

17Although she did not share his rural fantasy, Mrs. P believed her husband's love for her had "intensified" since their separation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II] Reference

The events intensified pleas for Powell to run for president.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grappling With Race] Reference

Rifqa's religious zeal seems to have intensified during this period.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Runaway] Reference

Prosper intensified his shuttle diplomacy while loos­ening the conditions for return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Off the Island] Reference

At Athens, new members Poland and the Czech Republic called for intensified foreign-policy action.    From Wordnik.com.  [European Union: Divided They Stand] Reference

The controversy has been intensified by debate about whether all the deaths can be linked to one virus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Next Killer Virus] Reference

That Congress was hyperkinetic, but only intensified existing tendencies of the then-ascendant liberalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look Who's Interesting] Reference

But the severe drought, intensified by El Nino, aggravated these incendiary farming and grazing practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Is A Job For Brazil] Reference

The call for reducing Western dependence on oil from the Middle East has also intensified since September 11.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Energy Squeeze] Reference

She began binge drinking, an addiction that intensified after her brother Ricky committed suicide when she was 22.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Kramer Vs. Mrs. Kramer] Reference

The effects of the U. S.'s economic contraction that began in 1973 have only intensified in the new global economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Hope on a Tightrope’] Reference

Third, intensified fighting risks a wider conflict in the Balkans, with far-reaching implications for Europe and the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Risk Of 'Americanizing' The War] Reference

More profound, the "war has intensified a conservative backlash in Russia," says Lilia Shevtsova of Moscow's Carnegie Center.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Respectable Russia] Reference

"" I do not want a lot of saber rattling over this or war talk, '' said the president, as the standoff with Pyongyang intensified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking For Leverage] Reference

On Sept. 24, as talks about a Washington bailout intensified, McCain announced he would suspend his campaign and fly to Washington.    From Wordnik.com.  [How a ‘Nation of Whiners’ Struck Back] Reference

As the dot-com frenzy intensified and markets soared, it became almost shamefully easy to raise money for cross-border merger deals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is It Globaloney?] Reference

Throughout the afternoon, the fighting intensified as Serbian troops from the east linked up with forces south of the Muslim pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tightening The Noose] Reference

Despite concerns over global warming, recent events have intensified pressure to develop new oil and natural-gas resources in Alaska.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE ALASKAN FRONT] Reference

The spectacular string of events, coming atop a precipitous drop in living standards, only intensified the sense that Mexico is imploding.    From Wordnik.com.  [How It All Went South] Reference

Whatever the case, it was one of a half-dozen such incidents in Quetta in the last few months, and it only intensified the edgy atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Picture Show] Reference