The summit meeting is raising the political temperature on the streets here.
China can make and cancel orders for individual aircraft, depending on the political temperature of the moment.
However, such highly personalized attacks did little to reduce the political temperature.
They have said that what has really changed is the political temperature at the White House.
However, the next move indicated that the political temperature was rising fast.
Each made small, sometimes ironic jokes that reinforced the sense of good will and lowered the political temperature.
I am very conscious that it has raised the political temperature in a number of Member States.
You have inaugurated your presidency in a hot political temperature and the freezing wind of the energy crisis.
But already, the political temperature is running high.
"The political temperature across the nation is rising," he said, fueled by increasing economic hardships.