to aggravate the situation
21aggravate — verb (T) 1 to make a bad situation worse: Their debt problem was aggravated by a rise in interest rates. 2 informal to make someone angry or annoyed: Stop aggravating the cat! aggravating adjective aggravatingly adverb aggravation noun (C, U) …
22Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest — Infobox Eurovision country Name = Lithuania Member station = LRT National selection event = ESC apps = 8 ESC first = 1994 ESC best = 6th, 2006 ESC worst = Last, 1994, SF 2005 Website = [http://www.eurovizija.lt/ LRT page] EBU page =… …
23Environmental issues in the Niger Delta — Key environmental issues in the Niger Delta of Nigeria relate to its petroleum industry. The delta covers 20,000 km² within wetlands of 70,000 km² formed primarily by sediment deposition. Home to 20 million people and 40 different… …
24To raise the devil — Raise Raise (r[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raised} (r[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Raising}.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of r[=i]sa to rise. See {Rise}, and cf. {Rear} to raise.] [1913 Webster] 1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a …
25To raise the wind — Raise Raise (r[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raised} (r[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Raising}.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of r[=i]sa to rise. See {Rise}, and cf. {Rear} to raise.] [1913 Webster] 1. To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a …
26Civil Constitution of the Clergy — A commemorative plate from 1790 shows a curate swearing the Constitution. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy (French: Constitution civile du clergé ) was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that subordinated the Roman… …
27Banyamulenge — The Banyamulenge are a group of mainly Tutsi Kinyarwanda speakers living in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). They are concentrated in the province of South Kivu close to the Burundi Congo Rwanda border. The… …
28vortex ring state — The operating state of a helicopter main rotor in which the axial flow through the rotor is opposite to the axial flow outside the rotor disc area and to the rotor thrust. It is an unstable condition of powered flight in which the helicopter… …
29History of Portugal (1777–1834) — History of Portugal caption=Miguel I of Portugal, the TraditionalistThe history of Portugal from the beginning of Maria I s reign in 1777 to the end of the Liberal Wars in 1834 spans a complex historic period in which several important political… …
30Manila hostage crisis — The bus where the hostages were held captive. Location Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines …
