Sentence examples for a escalation of from inspiring English sources

The majority of incidents logged by researchers — 354 — were categorized as a "escalation of a dispute".

"At this time we believe that it is an escalation of an ongoing local dispute," a police spokesman said.

"It's an escalation of a deplorable practice".

Gbagbo's refusal to transfer power to Ouattara prompted an escalation of a long simmering civil war.

There must be an alternative to an escalation of violent attritional conflicts.

A task force of 150 specialists to Jordan represents a trickle rather than an escalation of US involvement, Joshi said.

Our article assumes selection of a threshold to trigger an escalation of care.

All this profound sickness -- people just don't seem to want to acknowledge it and it isn't really even defended -- just routinely ignored -- it isn't just that the excesses of the Bush Administration haven't been righted -- there's an escalation of warrantless wiretapping, an escalation of drones, an escalation of intimidation of whistleblowers.

But the Pentagon was anxious to avoid a land campaign and pressed for an escalation of the air campaign.

An opposition party official has been shot dead in Burundi amid an escalation of political violence after a disputed election.

So an escalation of the conflict is an attempt to avoid escalation?