Sectarian tensions have been high in Houla, which is overwhelmingly Sunni and is surrounded by Alawite and Shiite villages.
And there have been high inward flows of EU immigrants into Norway.
Given that defaults have been high and recovery rates low, it is surprising that high-yield bonds have earned positive returns so far this year.
Public health concerns have been high in China in recent months.
The state of the housing market is likely to have been high on the agenda when the Bank of England's monetary-policy committee met this week.
Interest rates have been low and commodity prices have been high.
While its gene-finding techniques may have been high-tech, Millennium's approach to creating the chemical was delightfully old-fashioned: It relied on the insight of its chemists.
Corporate insolvency rates in Scotland have been high in recent times.
Casualties are believed to have been high among the Senegalese troops.
Tensions have been high since city council members there voted a month ago to stop flying the Union flag year-round, restricting it instead to certain days.
It's easy to say, "NBC should have a show like 'Sons, '" but season one ratings for "Sons" wouldn't have been high enough to survive on broadcast.
Tensions in the Middle East have been high as saber-rattling between Iran and Israel remains heated and Western nations keep sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
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This is primarily due to sales of the iPhone 5, which have been high enough to sustain Apple until the iPhone 6 or iPhone 5S is released.
Tensions have been high since City Council members there voted a month ago to stop flying the Union Jack flag year-round, restricting it instead to certain days.
Worldwide food prices have been high since 2006, when speculation by traders caused staples such as rice to rise by up to 320 per cent in a year.
Tensions in the Persian Gulf have been high this year.
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Occupancy rates, however, have been high, according to the hoteliers.
Dine alternates among charcoal, India ink, litho crayon and other drawing tools, often on the same pieces, giving a lesson in the possibilities of tonal variation using implements that must have been high tech before the Renaissance.
Also, the safe and effective levels of drugs such as sibrafiban are not yet known, and the patients included in the study may not have been high risk, so the drug's effect would be small, they added.
The main problem with the Latin American schemes, Ms Queisser points out, is that the systems' running costs have been large (though in Chile's case not big enough to alter the fact that returns to investors have been high).
On the other hand, there have been high school athletes who have come out, and I get the feeling that the backlash an openly gay pro athlete would face from angry fans and players would be counteracted by a backlash against those angry fans and players.
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These are frothy numbers by any standard, and reflect in part the declining numbers of foreclosures being sold at giveaway prices in the interior markets of the state, and in part the underlying economic demand for real estate in the coastal cities, where prices traditionally have been high but plummeted dramatically during the recession years.
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Those big inventories encouraged by the cartel have been processed by refiners, who have been enjoying high profit margins.
Gasoline prices in California have been so high recently that some gas station owners have closed up shop rather than lose money, according to published reports.
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It argued that the public interest in understanding the risks involved in this case "would have been very high, if not exceptional" and would have provided the public "with a far better understanding of the risks to a national institution which millions depended on".
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